Word: sensationalizes
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Freud believed that human beings are bisexual to begin with -- polymorphous perverse, as he put it -- but become heterosexual or homosexual because of their early experiences of love and sensation. Bisexual as well as gay men often report having distant, aloof fathers, leading to speculation that homosexual behavior is in...
When a blood-hungry mosquito lands on a human forearm -- or, more likely, on the eyelid of a cow, the haunch of a squirrel, the wing of a roosting bird or even the back of a caterpillar -- she goes to work with awesome efficiency. Her slender proboscis, consisting of two...
But even worse, they'll lose all sensation in their tastebuds from years of sucking on acidic balls and searing pellets. The seasoning industry will go broke. Condiments will be useless. Food will lose all flavor whatsoever, and no one will care.
Appropriately, the book's opening essays by Alexander Cockurna and Mike Davis recreate the dizzying sensation of that approach by surveying the economy of the Downtown area. While perhaps a bit dry and statistical, these essays paint a fascinating portrait of a region filled almost exclusively with immigrants from Latin...
And so, Newhouse moved again, in an editorial blitz that caused a sensation in the media world when it was revealed last week. He forced Gottlieb, 61, to resign in order to make way for the most unlikely editor the New Yorker has ever had: Tina Brown, 38, who arrived...