Word: proclaimingly
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...rhetoric wasn't fancy, but it was on target. The G.O.P. is a party, after all, that owes its post-Barry Goldwater resurgence to opposition to civil rights. And while its leaders from time to time proclaim their belief in racial justice, their pledges have been mostly lip service. They're too genteel for a sheet-wearing bigot like David Duke but all too willing to embrace bigotry if it's dressed in a suit...
Kevorkian, however, is the only one who has stepped forward to proclaim himself a mercy killer on national TV. A retired pathologist, he first came to prominence in 1990 when he helped a relatively healthy 54-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease kill herself with a suicide machine of his invention. Since then he has assisted in more than 130 suicides. "He's the Tom Paine or the Martin Luther King of our movement," says Girsh. "He's willing to break the law for the cause." But to his critics he is an unrepentant killer who harbors an unhealthy...
...created and the meaning they had for the time period. To call most of these prints "superb works of art" would be the same as placing the Marlboro Man ads in the upper regions of artistic greatness. The two, after all, were displayed in similar places. We do not proclaim a political cartoon a masterpiece; rather, it is clever, as are the majority of these prints...
What if she's in Eliot and you're in Cabot, you say? Let me assure you: Cabot or Currier, as the T-shirts proclaim, is not really closer to Canada. As a Pfoho resident, I would like to allay your fears. I have about five or six close friends in Mather and I see them all the time--two to three times a week minimum. Of course we make the effort to see each other and that...
Everyone has seen the gargantuan billboards; not noticing them is impossible. "The Big Dig--Worth Its Wait," they proclaim to the Boston community, trying to comfort the drivers stuck in never-ending traffic, wondering which new road they'll have to take this time. But the construction that has already been going on for years still has a ways to go, and the garish billboards may not placate the angry driver who can't help but wonder: "What the hell is this `Big Dig' anyway...