Word: prop
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...these Republicans do have rhythm), critics had taken to comparing the convention to a Utah Jazz home game, where everyone in the stands is white and most of the performers are black. I left a message for Powell asking whether he might have been used as just another prop in this diversity derby. (Did I mention the blind mountain climber and the Hispanic dotcom mogul...
Painters had done still life before. The tradition goes back to Greco-Roman antiquity. Still life cropped up in later painting but usually as an adjunct, a prop. From there it turned into a sort of allegorical fixture--the 17th century peach with its brown spots and wormholes, for instance, warning of the rottenness and transience at the heart of worldly pleasure...
...remote village in Thailand--until she needed money. Then, her mother said, "she came out of the blue and told me that she would give him away." For a price: $260. And that was how two-year-old Phanupong Khaisri ended up in the U.S. He was a prop in the arms of a couple who had to look like a family: the man was part of an international prostitution ring, the woman an indentured servant he was smuggling into the U.S. Caught by the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the Los Angeles International Airport on April 11, the adults...
...world in which profanity has become such a ubiquitous cultural prop--where children are routinely exposed to casual swearing in PG movies, in online chat rooms and on prime-time TV--perhaps I should not have been so surprised. Last year an ABC News survey found that 42% of Americans had cursed in public in recent months. And while Clementine does not watch The Sopranos (regularly), she lives with two elder sisters who can recite the racier lines from the latest Austin Powers film...
...nipple and penis jokes, the wild cackling or the dopey foreign accents that keep the laughs coming? In Robin Williams' weekly audio show on audible.com it's all that and more. With his acrobatic voice as his only prop, the comic becomes instantly more likable...