Word: quasi-
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...next time someone asks you if you’re going to the Jam on Saturday night, just say “no.” Use your House courtyard to build a bonfire of your all-male a cappella CDs, and encourage your friends to join in the quasi-cathartic ritual. These organizations survive only because we allow them to, so it is our responsibility to see to it that they never again enjoy our affections and attention...
It’s 4:32 of pop fun backed by a quasi-pornographic music video: doubly hard to resist. But, damn it, you must! Watch Cinemax at night while listening to the radio. Or hit on girls at a karaoke bar. Or buy the single on iTunes...
Meeting Audrey, my quasi mother, was even stranger. Tilda Swinton had a Scottish accent in her trailer but spoke like a born American when the cameras were turned on. Her performance was so convincing that when the actors took time out for lunch, I found myself confiding in her about a romantic breakup I was suffering through. Writing autobiographical fiction, it's often said, is therapeutic for a novelist, but it's nothing compared with spilling one's guts to a live human being who is posing as one's parent...
...Gore's new office at the network's quasi-industrial San Francisco studio, there are no photos or other White House mementos to suggest that this is the man who, as he likes to put it, "used to be the next President of the United States." But anyone who knew him then would recognize the giant whiteboards he always kept handy for scrawling his inspirations on. Those much remarked-upon earth tones of his presidential campaign have been traded for the head-to-toe man-in-black look that passes for the uniform of the new media executive...
...that Lohan’s looks buy her much power in “Herbie”’s world. Check out how studiously the film denies Lohan any real agency as she takes to the racetrack over her father’s quasi-sexist objections. It’s not her making those hairpin turns past goonish rivals, or even deciding to—it’s that darned Herbie, racing off with a mind of his own every time she starts the ignition. “I’m being carjacked...