Word: sized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Naddaff says the ad was not an attempt to"recruit" students and notes that "literature hasdoubled in size over the past three years...
With his own hat size and voice print instead of Dylan's, Luke could have been a memorable main character-as-messiah, for whom genius, as Esther tells Billy, is its own excuse. As things are, the author cobbles up convincing song lyrics and catches the feel of things at the fringes of a big concert tour...
...with the tank showed us another face, so to speak, of the camera and gave us an instance in which the image did not cut humanity down to size but elevated and affirmed it, serving as an instrument for democracy and justice. Instead of making the lofty trivial, as it so often seems to do, the image made the passing eternal and assisted in the resistance of an airbrushed history written by the winners. Technology, which can so often implement violence or oppression, can also give a nobody a voice and play havoc with power's vertical divisions by making...
...town of Alto Paraiso, 150 miles north of Brasilia, Mitraud bears a message to locals that is a delicate mix of dire warnings and creative alternatives. Unless you take steps now, she says--use natural fertilizers, market the cerrado's evergreen flowers and fruits, or turn county-size chunks of the region into nature parks for tourists--your children will inherit a wasteland. The message seems to be getting through: in and around Alto Paraiso, a fourth of the residents live off enterprises that don't involve trashing the land...
...pieces that Griffin has picked up on weekly trips to New York wholesalers. (He doesn't buy clothes directly from individual shoppers, so leave those old sweaters at home.) Currently, much of the women's clothing sadly seems geared toward those with eating disorders. Even in so-called `size large,' a tiny lime-colored slip-dress ($24) barely covers the essentials. Access's velvet LBDs ($28) and silvery separates by Ceduxion ($24) share the same minimalist proportions...