Word: soft
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...Spoering, a lecturer in the Chemistry department, spent six years in the Lowell community, including the last four as resident dean. Eck said that Spoering and his wife, Amy, started off in Lowell as chemistry tutors, where he “had a soft-spoken but very active manner.” She said that during the previous resident dean search, she had lobbied for Spoering, who came across "as someone with a very good head on his shoulders and a deep inner compass...
...says a typical evening repast may include a cheeseburger, a fajita burrito, a pile of fries and ice cream. And maybe a brownie.) And if it weren't for uniforms and the help of his wife, he wouldn't have a clue what to wear. His tenor voice is soft, but his gaze - fixed on his target - can make subordinates squirm. If he takes off his glasses, says an aide, "you know you're in trouble...
...regime has repeatedly charged that the recent unrest is a plot by foreign powers, particularly Britain, to orchestrate an uprising against the theocracy. On the eve of the pivotal vote, Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei expressed concern about a "soft" or "velvet" revolution, the term originally used to describe the 1989 overthrow of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. (See the top 10 players in Iran's power struggle...
...nearly a half-century, Japan's most prolific genre has been Pink Eiga - soft-core, low-budget sex films. It's served as a training ground for young directors; the NYAFF showed an early effort by Yojiro Takita, who won the foreign-language Oscar this year for Departures. Goto, the current hot Pink auteur, was represented by the sweeter-than-it-is-sexy Blind Love, a twist on Cyrano de Bergerac, with a ventriloquist using a friend to woo (and have sex with) his inamorata. Lalapipo (Lot of People), set in the teeming, tumescent world of the porn industry...
...IRNA has accused prominent American and European media by name for "being at the service of instigators with their soft politics." Chastising the London Guardian newspaper for its reporting on Neda Agha Soltan - the 27-year-old woman whose death on video has made her an icon of Iran's protest movement - it says the paper failed to mention "evidence" by the Intelligence Ministry "which points to some foreign government's planning of this scenario." Ayatullah Ahmad Khatami, a conservative leader of Tehran's Friday Prayers, accused the protesters themselves of killing Neda: "Any intelligent person seeing the film gets...