Word: sensationalize
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Looking to rebound from last weekend’s Ivy loss to Penn, the Harvard men’s soccer team had its eyes set on snatching a pivotal road win against the University of Rhode Island (URI). Playing at the URI Soccer Complex, the Crimson (5-4-0, 0...
The course description for Dr. Linda Schlossberg’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1122: “The Romance: From Jane Austen to Chick Lit” promises “‘sensation,’ and titillation; the commodification of desire; Harlequins.” The...
Before he became the Jimmy Stewart--like gentleman of sitcom, Newhart was a stand-up sensation. His 1960 LP, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, went to No. 1 and won a Grammy for Album of the Year. The old bits, in which he would play one side of...
Once the pain of surgery had subsided after Christmas, I began to suffer the bane of amputees: phantom limb pain. Sometimes I felt as if my fist was clamping tighter and tighter until my fingers were ready to explode. At other times, the Phantom could create the sensation of twisted...
The latest example of this is the enormity of coverage on parents who are crazily obsessed with giving their children a head start. By middle school the kids are world-weary and anxiety-ridden. These domineering parents are the subject of books such as Alissa Quart's Hothouse Kids, Alexandra...