Word: rollingly
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...compete; in the weary, unaesthetic world of sick people they work too hard at tasks that are too unglamorous. Those good women were the first to warn us about the young lovelies in high heels. But the pharma babes still get to us, and the good women just roll their eyes...
...convened at 5 p.m. in the building at 1 Times Square (which is actually a triangle) for Treb's roll call, indoctrination and pep talk. As a member of this covenant I'm sworn to secrecy on matters of timing and mechanics - the technique, for example, for avoiding the dread occupational hazard of "confetti arm." But I am permitted to quote a few of Treb's dicta. Confetti dispersal, he intones, "is a physical, violent act," a therapeutic exercise that will purge, Treb says, "all your aggressions from 2006." (He knows us so well.) We are to remove wristwatches, bracelets...
...SpaceNavigator isn't a joystick, nor is it a trackball. It is a wheel, anchored to a rewardingly heavy base, that you twist, tilt, nudge, press and pull to move up, down, forward and back, and also pitch and yaw. (Sorry, aviators: no roll...
...these revivals, one in the form of the so-called rock rebellion of the 1950s and 1960s, when rock and roll was seen as a very subversive force, and was constantly denounced by legal and religious authorities as some kind of crazed mania that was sweeping the young. But the young people were creating something that looked like a very ancient form of festivity. They were dressing in certain ways, and getting up and dancing, and maybe later in the ?60s, adding in mind-altering substances...
...resonated throughout history, from Proverbs 23:7 ("As a man thinks in his heart, so is he") to Norman Vincent Peale's 1952 self-help bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking. The Secret - created by Australian reality show producer Rhonda Byrne - is so hokey at times you have to roll your eyes. But to a lot of enthusiasts, it makes perfect sense...