Word: standardism
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...terrible secret, which he then tries to exorcise - all right, by becoming a serial killer. That's a twist, though hardly a surprise to the people seeing this movie. Nor will Hannibal's method stir the shock of the new in moviegoers. He simply becomes the hero of a standard revenge plot...
...made it deep into the search that resulted in Lawrence H. Summers’ selection six years ago: “I am absolutely committed to being Penn’s president, and I am not interested in any other presidency”).Such denials have become standard in presidential searches of elite institutions as university leaders, facing pressure from trustees and other groups at home, are compelled to demonstrate loyalty to their current schools. In his unusually public flirtation with Harvard in 2001, presidential runner-up Lee C. Bollinger risked alienating the University of Michigan, where he was president...
...decade ago, the latest generation of collapsibles--bikes that, thanks to a few strategic hinges and latches, can pretzel themselves down to the size of a suitcase--combines hipness and high function, not to mention the ability to fit easily into a closet. "I won't ride a standard bike anymore," says Channell Wasson of Foldabikes.com who has been selling folders for more than 15 years, and riding them even longer. "We call them cumbersomes...
...photographs follow a standard form: each building is photographed at a three-quarter angle, filling the frame nearly to the edges, while the children of each institution line up alongside it—evidence of the charities’ good work...
...glory of appearing on The Powerpuff Girls’ LP? Not quite. Shuffling between five cities, the band’s guitarist/vocalist Robert Schneider was busy making up his own scale. I repeat: his own scale. Based on mathematical equations using the properties of natural logarithms, Schneider replaced the standard twelve-tone octave with a new set of frequencies. According to Schneider, “music theory in this scale has not yet been worked out.” The results are two 30-40 second songs enticingly called “Non-Pythagorean Theorem Compositions...