Word: reaction
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...really lend itself to a “Greatest Moments” list. But the show did boast a few one-time occurrences so generally wonderful as to deserve note, and for this reason I humbly submit the following list: 5. Michael Kors’s mother. My initial reaction to Ms. Kors’s appearance, in the middle of an episode where each contestant designed an outfit for another’s mother, was one of surprise. After all, something about the fashion world had always made me believe that designers like Kors emerged from some...
...reaction to the young age of soldiers in fighting Vietnam, many states lowered the MLDA and allowed 18-year-olds to drink during the 1970s. By 1984, however, the federal government compelled states to reset the MLDA to 21 in response to the obvious reality of the time: Quite simply, lower MLDAs have failed in practice...
...groups have convened to choose what they think are the best films, filmmakers and performances of the year. Soon our encomiums will be plastered all over the newspapers In today's New York Times you'll find ad for The Queen, the film about the British Royal Family's reaction to Princess Diana's death: "WINNER... Best Actress... Best Screenplay... New York Film Critics Circle." Word of our decisions will lodge in the brains of Academy members. And if they don't, the studios will remind them with daily double-truck ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter...
...British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who both sit on grownup seats. "I only wish they'd given me a different chair," laments the Prime Minister. The U.S. sees India as an important democratic ally in Asia, a kind of hedge against the rise of China. But as the reaction to the nuclear deal shows, many Indians still feel like they're being patronized...
Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer, who has taught Borges’ work in her graduate seminar on aesthetics, wrote in an e-mail that her reaction to the news “alternates between great sadness for the loss and humor, because of course both stories perform the joke typical in Borges of purposefully confusing original with copy...