Word: propped
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...Sean Palfrey, first-year master of Adams. The family room, for the extended Adams House family, holds a welcoming wooden table for weekly dinner talks with members of the senior common room. In addition to ping-pong and pool tables and a TV room, the basement contains a theater prop shop stocked with tools and open to students. Palfrey's favorite parts of the house are the intricate closets, packed with shelves and delicate woodwork, and the gorgeous and gigantic kitchen. But the house's best-kept secret is in the third-floor bedroom--Teddy Roosevelt's crib...
...that home-equity loans--now shooting beyond $500 billion--account for an unknown level of further market speculation. When home values and stocks rise together, "the gains from each help finance the other," he noted last November. If it turns out that rising home values are being mortgaged to prop up stocks, a crack in the stock market could hit home values hard...
During my sinking search for anyone acutely tuned in to the presidential primary, I put out an SOS to the district's Congressman, Ed Royce. "Ed, I'm on the streets of Fullerton and can't find anything but YES ON PROP. 22 signs." The only passion in California politics right now is wrapped up in a proposition that wants to make sure gays don't walk the aisle. "Go to the Brea Community Center," advised Royce, a Bush supporter. Republican women were gathering for their monthly meeting, he said, and they would definitely be plugged...
...give them this! This is a bloody palace! You're not going to able to afford this on so and so's salary, you wouldn't have accessories like this. I think everything on a set, and every costume, has to make a statement. Even if it's a prop, if it's this vase of flowers. I like flowers. Some men don't. I do. I think that makes a statement about me that those are there, that I didn't have them thrown out of the room. Everything in a movie has to make a statement, everything...
...moviemaking. The theme is popularity, and it's packaged, marketed and playing at a mall near you. Every flannel and fleece pullover is choreographed to present the appearance of effortless cool. Yes, the tag on the $59.90 paratroop pants proclaims that they've been TESTED, but that's a prop, part of the romantic retail fantasy. "You buy into the emotional experience of a movie," says the director, CEO Michael Jeffries. "And that's what we're creating. Here I am walking into a movie, and I say, 'What's going to be the box office today...