Word: propping
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...prop from the Get Smart set but rather a covert Soviet listening device that dates to the 1960s. Planted in the heel of a target's shoe, it could monitor conversations...
...hour is too early or idea too obscure for FM’s intrepid photo chair. She’s shadowed Project Runway contestants, created the perfect prop for our sayonara Larry Summers issue, and photoshopped and taken hundreds of photos. Luckily for FM, she’ll be sticking around The Crimson as photo chair next year...
...fair, the public-health authorities had begun works to improve the city's infrastructure. But their refusal to retreat from the miasma theory, and the extra piles of atmospheric data they commissioned to prop it up, cost thousands more lives. Snow's victory over the miasmatists wasn't conceded until years after his death in 1858. Some never relented, such as London's otherwise enlightened Health Board chief, Edwin Chadwick, who went to his grave still propounding that belief in 1890 - seven years after the German scientist Robert Koch definitively identified Vibrio cholerae...
...That's disgusting. I could go stand on a street corner and talk about my actors!' As soon as I heard 'I could stand on a street corner,' I thought, Oh, no." Perhaps because there aren't actually any cows in Inland Empire, Dern didn't anticipate the bovine prop, however. "The Academy members love show business," explains Lynch. "And this is show business, being out with...
...whose products are reported to account for 71% of the brands featured in movies since 1990, launched an advertising campaign asking entertainment industry officials to voluntarily eliminate its products in all movies and television shows "You have the power to help prevent youth smoking - just by losing one little prop," says one of the ads. Jennifer Hunter, a Philip Morris USA vice president, said in announcing the campaign: "Movies have the power to amuse, delight, teach and inspire. However, some studies suggest they may also influence a child's decision to smoke...