Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whispered something in his ear and then strode out to the pulpit. Fieger was pleased. He swaggered out and took a place in the audience, awaiting a few words of praise from the reverend. But Jackson only issued the terse acknowledgment that the "Democratic nominee for this state" was present, and asked Fieger to stand--without bothering to mention his name. "I guess he didn't want to try to pronounce Geoffrey," a deflated, sarcastic Fieger mumbled. "The name always catches people...
Just ask Robert McGuire, a Mercedes salesman in Raleigh, N.C., who was ruefully watching as the market plunged last Tuesday. "Our customers are very investment driven," McGuire says. Just last month a retired engineer plunked down $50,000 in cash for a mid-size Mercedes as a present for his wife--a purchase paid for with money made in the stock market the previous week...
...well effected both by director Peretz and writer David Ryan (who, along with Peretz, adapted the screenplay from a short story written by Ian McEwan). As the movie opens, Joey comes across as naive and impressionable, perhaps even numb to outside sensation. His lack of worldly perspective is as present in his eagerness to embark on a business venture about which he knows nothing as it is in his coy admission to Sissel that she is the first person with whom he has ever slept. Sissel, by contrast, is considerably sharp-witted--acutely aware of emotional pain and other substantial...
Personal ads can make for interesting reading. Brief, often disjointed attempts at self-description, the ads aim to present an entire person by mentioning several characteristics and interests. Now, imagine the typical personal ad. Expand it to 10, maybe 20 pages. Replace the desire to impress with a commitment to candor. Picture the ad being written by someone who aspires to be a professional writer. In such a transformation every characteristic, every interest that would be presented in the shorter ad, will be explained, analyzed, connected to other traits, to past experiences, to future aspirations. Put together twenty of these...
...black writer, examining the conflict he feels between his race and his middle class upbringing, writes his essay largely in the second person, thereby splitting himself in two so as to allow for a dialogue. To show indecision, another writer breaks up her essay into brief passages, each presenting a separate thought on her decision not to have a child. Digging into the book, the reader meets a Vietnamese immigrant struggling with tradition, a young writer working in a bagel shop to pay rent, a college dropout discussing the problems of our education system and a woman with epilepsy. Statements...