Word: semi
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...quintessential New Yorker: put-upon, caffeine-addicted, rent-strapped and desperate to get herself the hell out of the city. A lifestyle correspondent for a Manhattan morning show, Lucinda makes her escape by way of a long-term assignment in Prairie City, a fictional metropolis deep in the semi-rural heart of the Midwest. "Everyone I'd meet in Prairie City would be both interesting and kind," she daydreams, "every conversation meaningful, every gesture sincere, every woman nonanorectic, every man tall and able to fix cars...
...called her name and Johnson walked into the six-walled semi-circle that cloaked the palm reader...
...Slavic studies scholar who took nearly a decade away from academia to work as a computer programmer and a semi-professional flutist won another unusual distinction for her resume yesterday—an offer of tenure from Harvard...
...which line the coast. Unlike other generic seaside establishments, the Barking Crab has more to offer than a nice view. Typically, when a restaurant snags a stellar location, they forget to bring their food up to the same level—instead serving over-battered, over-fried assortments of semi-fresh seafood. After many bellyache-inducing meals of lackluster fisherman’s platters, it was refreshing to have seafood that wasn’t all breading and grease...
...part to the semi-communal tables, the restaurant takes on the air of a very laid-back family gathering, with some twenty-somethings and businessmen thrown in for good measure. “We get a huge mix,” Tarr says. “We have construction workers rubbing elbows with financial analysts...