Word: swooned
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...tell them they should think about funding their college education,” Finkton says. “How can they prepare now?” And he has a work ethic that would make any advisor at the Bureau of Study Counsel swoon...
...group's old Korean singles. The tasty production, dance-pop beats, fluid raps and great vocal harmonies comprise an expertly fashioned example of globalized R&B. Tracks like "My Heaven" (a collaboration with top Japanese DJ Daishi Dance) and "Love Club" have plenty of dance-floor appeal. As for swoon factor, well, their track "Let Me Hear Your Voice" has been selected as the theme for the new Tokyo Broadcasting System romantic comedy Ohitorisama. If your work is popping up on Friday-night prime-time drama, total domination can't be that far behind...
When History Professor Niall C. D. Ferguson begins his lecture at 10:07 a.m., he abandons the podium, choosing instead to pace in a slow, deliberate loop around the lectern. He speaks with the kind of proper British accent that makes Anglophiles swoon. As he makes an argument about the French Revolution, his throat wraps around certain words with a silky aggression that he punctuates by cocking an eyebrow or gesturing with his left hand, index finger and thumb closed into an “o” around a stub of chalk. His words are actually improvised. His paper...
...that most of the media is still in a "post-9/11 swoon" and doesn't cover the department with any teeth. It really happened even earlier, with the age of Giuliani and his turnaround of the crime situation. People were so afraid of getting on the wrong side of him that there was very little critical coverage at the time, so it all came out in the coverage of Louima and Diallo, which are two of the most horrific incidents that occurred. [Abner Louima is a Haitian immigrant who was brutally assaulted by a police officer in a Brooklyn...
Rather than face up to all this, too many in the GOP are stuck in a swoon of nostalgia. Most of our party leaders come from bloodred GOP states or safe districts, so they are far more at home in the tribal politics of Republican primaries than in those of the country as a whole. You could say their radio dials are stuck on AM. The result is we hear a lot about going back to "the winning ways of Ronald Reagan." Well, I love Reagan too. But demographics no longer do. In 1980, Reagan beat Jimmy Carter...