Word: resists
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...anchor for the show; and Kate Levering, as the chorus girl who becomes a star, dances like a demon. The book is creakier than ever, with all that campy ?30s lingo ("Am-scray, toots!"). But this show is pure candy. It'll probably rot your teeth, but who can resist...
...Basically what we?re seeing is a sort of evolutionary backlash. Humans today are programmed to resist famine, because over time, the only people who survived and propagated are those who are well-equipped to survive famine. But today most of the planet doesn?t face famine; it only exists in certain pockets of the world. For those of us not living in famine-prone areas, an overabundance of food has become more dangerous than a lack of it. We have no protection against excess food intake, and as food has become more available and less expensive all over...
...Minh and his cohorts were communists, to be sure, but it was their nationalist credentials that earned them popular support. They had led their nation's resistance to Japanese occupation and French colonialism, and their defeat of the French at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 prompted France to sign a withdrawal agreement at Geneva. The Geneva agreement temporarily divided the country into northern and southern zones for purposes of demobilization, pending nationwide elections for an independent government. But with the Cold War in full swing, the U.S. was furious at the French for setting up a Southeast...
...Temptation Island--in which four unmarried couples tried to resist a bevy of hot singles--was, in most people's opinion, the show most likely to induce God to consume Earth with tongues of flame. Unless, for the most part, those people were under 35. The audience that made Island a hit grew up in an era of 50% divorce rates; for them, it offered more than campy, sexy entertainment. It was also a wholehearted, even corny, testament to making imperfect relationships work, despite slights, misunderstandings and the occasional striptease with a stranger. It couldn't have had heavier-handed...
...Some would say because Djukanovic embraced independence as the only way to resist Milosevic, and that making a U-turn on that position now would simply be too risky. But a second explanation would be that during Milosevic's reign, it was too dangerous to move for legal independence because Milosevic would use that as an opportunity to start a civil war there, too. So Djukanovic is simply making the move now because it's finally safe...