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...fables Stan Lee and his colleagues have spun out for Marvel Comics is their confirmation of what any young reader may have thought about himself as his body changes and his mind reels: I'm a freak. To this Lee adds the fantasy: But your weirdness is a sign of preternatural abilities; you're odd because you're a hero. Spider-Man emits goo from his fingers, and he can fly. The Hulk gets mad and becomes bigger and stronger. Wolverine's Dragon Lady fingernails make him the toughest guy on the block. It's the outsider's ultimate dream...
...calm the masses by saying that some of the fall-off was due to a dip in inventories. That could mean that as those inventories are replenished in this quarter, economic activity will pick up. The logic is circular to the extent that a poor GDP figure is a sign that the economy may not pick up and hence, inventories will not be replaced...
Regulation Scores of agencies police doctors. Thousands of people make their living doing it. They give us yearly tasks that doctors, on pain of ending their careers, absolutely must do: 10-page reappointment forms, written exams, blood tests, physicals. Every hospital we work in, every HMO we sign up with does this too. Every year. Every 10 years we have to take our boards again. (Imagine if lawyers had to pass the bar exam every decade until they quit.) And there are yearly federal and state licensures and safety exams, fire exams, infection-control exams, malpractice-insurance exams, queries about...
...triptych like Three Studies for a Crucifixion from 1962, with its invertebrate lovers grappling in the center panel and its butchered carcass in the right, the body is the visible sign of the eternal devils of human nature, the dog beneath the skin that bares its fangs in war and in bed. What the eyes represent for most painters, the mouth was for Bacon, the locus of human identity. The mouth is what bites, suckles, and howls at the moon. By contrast, the eyes are likely to be missing entirely or smeared shut or obscured by a milky scrim...
...list launched by student-run business Unofficial Tours. The e-mail list, which went live on Monday at www.harvardbargainblast.com, is a biweekly newsletter touting exclusive offers for Harvard students from businesses like the bar Tommy Doyle’s and the local hamburger chain b.good. As extra incentive to sign up, the first 100 people to subscribe will receive automatic gift certificates to b.good, burrito chain Qdoba, or the restaurant Grendel’s Den. All who sign up are entered to win prizes ranging from Red Sox tickets to an iPod touch, set to be raffled...