Word: stooping
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...Hemingway and Faulkner, writers of high style and high purpose without an iota of aw-shucks relatability. The future probably belongs to the Fraziers, the entertainers, who serve up their profundities with humor and sex and fisticuffs so they go down more easily. McCarthy would never stoop to entertain us, but there's a stripped-down intensity to his work that is just awesome. You sense that The Road, with its world empty of values and wisdom and human graciousness, isn't about the future at all. The Road is what the world looks like to McCarthy right...
...Orleans, when the anguish pours out of him like the summer Gulf Coast rainstorm he is navigating. "The music of New Orleans you hear in the language, the rhythm in the way we walk, the way we gesture. The smells of the food, the way people sit on the stoop, the looks on the faces of the old people as they tell stories, the eccentricities of the way they dress," White said. "But you smell that smell, hear that silence, it speaks of death and doom...
...sight of an elderly person with a stoop sets people to wondering, "Will that happen to me?" Up to now, there has been no way to answer that question. Though osteoporosis afflicts about 25 million Americans, most of them women, the disease offers no early symptoms. Usually it is not diagnosed until after age 50, when a victim suffers a fracture. But that may soon change. Last week a team of Australian scientists reported that they have identified a single gene that appears to put people at very high risk of developing osteoporosis...
...RIDICULE The Da Vinci Code Response Group says it won't stoop to condemnations or boycotts but calls the film "harmless" and "grotesque...
...well intentioned” person of authority. The Rev. Jackson announced that his Rainbow Coalition will be paying the tuition of the accuser for the remainder of her education, no matter how the case turned out, “so she will never ... again have to stoop that low to survive.” While politically astute, this “gesture” shows that he fails to recognize that all women “stoop” every day just to survive. PERRY A. THRELFALL-GOHEEN Richmond, Va. April...