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...thought he spoke his mind,” she said as alums and notables crowded around, eager to shake her hand. “Was that creative unrulinesss in action? Perhaps. I thought he was great...
...Carlin, and making as many sexual references as possible.Pinker’s lengthy and detailed categorization of “his little friends”—verbs—plods along, reading like a lecture in Linguistics 101. There are moving and changing verbs (brush, dribble, shake), verbs of having, knowing, and helping (bring, tell, fix), and verbs of acting, intending, and causing (march, come, kill). Verbs in their contexts determine a specific understanding of intention and situation, Pinker reminds us. After all, in English, “juice dripped from the peach” is different...
...should really understand is that if we looked in the mirror, you're going to find out very quickly who's making that choice. To say, 'well, it's my boss's fault.' No. I'm realizing we're in the big shake-out. This time where we really have to decide, and our employers have to decide, how we're going to respect our time and the choices we can make and the boundaries that we want to have to be able to really truly have...
Still, Clinton holds a commanding lead in South Carolina and probably will continue to do so--absent "an exogenous factor that intervenes to shake things up, a significant mistake or a revelation," says Fowler. The question for Obama: Does he wait for such an eventuality--or make one happen...
...mustache. Eastwood's scruff became a fashion statement that lives today on the carefully unshaven faces of pop stars and young actors. And his surliness, transposed to the Dirty Harry Callahan character he played in five films, lent the cop film an antiheroic attitude the genre still can't shake...