Word: resistable
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...school of thought has it that if Clinton runs as expected, Gore won't be able to resist being drawn into the contest, if only because of a kind of sibling rivalry that goes back to the days when each had to maneuver around the other for influence in Bill Clinton's White House. Gore is the one Democrat whose entry into the race could deprive Clinton of the automatic front-runner advantage she now enjoys with fund raisers and activists...
...audience, absorbed by Sketches of Frank Gehry, Sydney Pollack?s very fine documentary about our era?s master builder. There are critics? represented in the documentary by a rather shifty-looking academic?who would resist that rather grandiose description of Gehry. But the truth is that the great buildings of his maturity are utterly inimitable. You can?t even pay him an homage; it would look like plagiarism. So one is stuck with the notion that he is some kind of genius, but one who, unlike, say, Frank Lloyd Wright, is somewhat discomfited by that term...
Americans who resist the coffee culture are brewing up a growing market: U.S. tea sales are up sixfold since 1990. As tea goes gourmet, all-natural labels such as Rishi and Ito En are moving in on Snapple and Lipton. Here's a taste of what the tea world will be savoring this summer...
...Saturday in Loker Commons, Plan B’s brand of melodic punk promises to please. With a wide range of new and old songs, from angry sounding numbers with angry lyrics to happier songs with angry lyrics, everyone should find a beat hard to resist and a message hard to ignore. Major MajorMajor Major is probably the most straightforward rock group on campus right now. “We don’t do the punk thing,” says Socrates R. Cruz ’06, who characterizes the band’s influences...
...It’s so damn abusable,” she says. “I think it’s hard to resist abusing it, particularly when you’re in high school and college...