Word: resistance
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...hard to resist Babyface's melodies. They are gently persuasive, a shoulder massage after a long day at work, a kiss on the cheek after a first date. He has worked with the best in the business, from Michael Jackson (the song On the Line from Spike Lee's new film, Get on the Bus) to Eric Clapton (the single Change the World); all told, he has produced 16 No. 1 hits. On last week's Billboard singles charts, three of the Top 10 songs--the Clapton single, Toni Braxton's Un-Break My Heart and Edmonds' own This...
...winners, not surprisingly, were American, Japanese, and Western European advertisers but the Australians, Russians, and South Americans were not overlooked. The majority of the American winners first aired during the Super Bowl, the launching pad for new, creative commercials. Interestingly the judges at the Cannes Festival usually failed to resist cultural stereotypes, almost all of the winning American commercials were ones for Little Caesar's, Pepsi and Budweiser...
...hard to resist superlatives about the new Dictionary of Art, the idea for which was approved in 1980 by Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister of Britain and owner of the family firm of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., just after the 20-volume sixth edition of the music dictionary was published. (Macmillan, which no longer has ties to the U.S. publisher of the same name, is the parent of Grove's Dictionaries.) If Macmillan had not been a privately owned company, it's unlikely that the Dictionary of Art would have gone ahead. The shareholders of a public company in these...
Some nations resist the international effort because they have agreed to secrecy in exchange for immunity from terrorist acts against their people, according to Boutros-Ghali...
While it's fine and good to call for tougher questions, we should be applauding the candidates for maintaining their civility, especially Bob Dole, who would probably benefit from some pointed character comments. The amicability might be artificial, but after all, it's our ability to resist our base urges that separates us from animals...