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...admonishing its readers to “Continue the Fight.” The poster presumably depicts Carlos Javier Palomino, a young anti-fascist stabbed to death by a member of the extreme right on his way to a protest in a subway station the year prior. Continuing to scan the walls, I’d catch some of the building’s finer graffiti: cartoon people riding along on conveyor belts on their way to prison, for example. All around me would be smoke and chatter, as scarf-clad brunettes sipped the famous corn syrup-free European Coke...
...made Vicky Cristina in Spain because he couldn't raise funds to shoot in the States). You could almost hear the muttering of the locals about their hosts: Don't they know they're the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, not the Hollywood Foreign Press Association? Somebody's going to scan the HFPA rolls to determine how many members come from India, and how many from Belgium...
Pinter's plays perplexed not because they withheld information but because what was onstage didn't always scan logically. In The Homecoming, for instance: the philosophy professor - at least that's what he says he is - returns to his boyhood home, bringing a woman he describes as his wife of nine years. Yet his two brothers, their father and an uncle seem surprised at the news. Has the professor been out of touch for so long he hasn't told them he's married? Is she his wife, or perhaps a woman he's engaged to as a test...
Find the right words. Instead of reading all the rsums that are getting dumped on them, many recruiters scan and search the lot for keywords. Which means top-bracket-job seekers--some of whom may not have looked for a new gig in a decade or more--need to update their rsums with the jargon du jour that recruiters are looking for. For accountants, that means phrases like Sarbanes-Oxley, while marketers may need to add terms like search-engine optimization...
...deserved honor on one of the most committed American public servants in recent memory. As we, like Kennedy himself, set off into these next four years with cautious optimism and in the spirit of sacrifice, it is of vital importance that we also turn our gaze backward, to scan our history for guidance and glimmers of hope. In this search for inspiration, we could do far worse than the exemplary life of Ted Kennedy...