Word: stand-in
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...Thomson, but it also means "people in their everyday lives don't have enough opportunities for the expression of capability - ways to say, 'I did that! That was me!'" For men as well as women (who Lush says buy her book in almost equal numbers), Spotless may be a stand-in for the neighbors they don't talk to over the fence, or the grandparent they never see. And a way to take creative control of at least the few square meters of the world they call home. When everything else looks like a mess, it's neat to know...
...housing is but a minor blip in the unstoppable progressive march to further realms of modernity. And, as a practical matter, it’s already been widely implemented by live-in couples, with the hushed complicity of a University that has largely abrogated its role as a stand-in for absent parents.What bothers me about the issue is not co-ed housing but the inflated rhetoric and sense of entitlement employed in its defense and justification. Yesterday, on a lopsided 31-1 vote, the Undergraduate Council (UC) declared that students enjoy a “right to self-determination...
...recently, he has had company in that exercise. Even without that much imagination, a Christian curious about Joseph can take some sturdy, basic inspiration from the carpenter who is, at a minimum, humanity's stand-in, a lunch-pail hero not born to holiness but who, by his hard-won and steadfast belief, finds a role in salvation. This season two big-name writers have taken Joseph's story a step further. He is a major supporting character in erstwhile vampirologist Anne Rice's current best seller, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. And he has a lead role...
Postmodernism comes to kid lit! But to children it will seem more like good subversive fun. The conceit is that the book's illustrator, Ned--who is often depicted hard at work--can't paint fast enough to stay ahead of the reader. So a cartoon stand-in for Lendler keeps turning up to urge the reader to slow down for Ned's sake and to please, please not turn the page yet. Now, what youngster can resist defying such a request? The narrative, a standard knight-rescuing-an-imprisoned-princess tale, unravels ridiculously as the overwhelmed Ned is forced...
...political class to the German electoral stalemate, the French plainly see their own malaise reflected back from across the Rhine - and that's a depressing prospect for the main parties of both the left and the right. The French conversation casts CDU leader Angela Merkel as a Teutonic stand-in for Nicolas Sarkozy, France's super-ambitious interior minister who heads the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), yet regularly issues pithy calls for a total "rupture" of the status quo politics of President Jacques Chirac and his current prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and a more radical...