Word: sifting
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...today in his Parkinson's-induced silence, Ali has had time to sift through the Muslim blarney and has returned to the more generous wisdom of the late Malcolm X, whom he regrets having deserted. "Malcolm was a very, very great man," he tells the author in his now halting speech. Odessa Clay's sweetness has manifestly overwhelmed Cassius Clay Sr.'s blather, and there is nothing left about their son not to like. At which point Remnick trips, for the first and only time, on his way out the door by tacking on a routine death-of-boxing editorial...
...looking nice and proper for a recruiter might be inconvenient, but it's necessary. If you want that job, you need to take the time to sift through the hundreds of similar companies and figure things out for yourself. You need to meet the people who will be evaluating your resume and make an effort to distinguish yourself from your classmates...
...There is a lot of good material out there," Cohn says. "You just have to sift through a little more...
...their late-1960s hijinks allied with the glam of 1970s David Bowie. Witness "Barbarella," the album's first single, and a seven-minute opus where Weiland throws in every studio trick the Beatles ever used, and then some. Unfortunately, Weiland has forgotten the difference between noise and tune--sift through guitars more processed than New York City hot dogs in "Desperation #5" and "Cool Kiss," and you'll be hard pressed to find a decent melody...
...believe that there is another reason as well. People in the '90s are suddenly being overloaded with information. Between the Internet and the proliferation of beepers and laptops and cell phones, many are constantly getting input and information. Most people have to behave like detectives in order to sift out the useful information from the useless. Similarly, the world of noir is a world of detectives, a world where mere information cannot help, where the world is a labyrinth and the city a maze. In increasingly urban, increasingly over-loaded lives, noir reflects the way that individuals are beginning...