Word: straighten
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...your New Year's resolution was to straighten up, you still have time to reconsider. Your time, energy and money might be better spent on something else...
...Watching the premature and apparently unself-conscious aging of the participants, I wonder if, in the fifth or sixth year of each cycle, they say to themselves, "Time to get a rinse, lose a stone or two, pull my marriage together and straighten out my kids." But that may be the bias of an American, relying on the superficial, the lure of eternal adolescence, more than your average Brit...
...might ask why powerful directors don't just straighten their spines, forget about the megamillions and go make their adult movies, NC-17 or no. The answer is that, for an American filmmaker, art and commerce are always in tension. The artist wants his film to be seen as he envisioned it. The businessman, who's taken millions to make the picture, also needs to satisfy his investors that the product will go into the widest market. A R-rated movie can play in any U.S. movie house; an NC-17 is verboten to many large theater chains and video...
...core. No stringer. Aviso sandwiches 1/4 in. of honeycombed material or foam between sheets of unidirectional carbon fiber--for a strong matrix--then seals it with heat. The deck and bottom flex independently: the cavity gives the rocker room to straighten out, pulling the rails and allowing for more speed on turns. Caution: your wax job might melt on these black boards...
...League. “I feel that people think that everyone who is Latino is Mexican, even at a place like Harvard where there are Latinos representing all the Latin American countries,” she writes in an e-mail. Herrera is not alone in her desire to straighten out such views. Four years ago, members of Fuerza Latina, a pan-Latino student organization at Harvard, decided to produce an artistic exhibition with the aim of showcasing the wealth and diversity of Latino art. This Saturday, “Presencia Latina” will be making its fourth annual...