Word: tampere
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Daveena Ma agreed, adding, "I think white chocolate is another symbol of the homogenization of American culture. You have real chocolate, dark chocolate, and then you tamper with it by making it milk chocolate and then you take out the essence of chocolate completely by making white chocolate. It's white chocolate for a white world...no passion, no flavor, no character, nothing...
...pictures, Saddam Hussein told frustrated U.N. inspectors who have been trying for more than a month to install surveillance cameras at two missile- testing sites. The U.N. responded by proposing to place tamper-proof seals over the most sensitive missile components until the camera issue is resolved...
...insanity, the rain descends "gently and unceasingly" in a deluge which threatens to overrun both the story and the nation. The past and present are so full of people and their troubles that this terrible weather becomes a sign of hope, "the only thing nobody has been able to tamper with." In an environment where everything can change at the whim of whichever army or party has control, the constant drizzle becomes an unlikely redemptive force. These passages provide a reflective distance from the disarray of the rest of the novel...
...four women, from the rest of the planet, and a veneer of scientific legitimacy. The seal has been broken several times in the past year and a half -- most recently to pump in 10 tons of badly needed oxygen. Now the veneer of credibility, already bruised by allegations of tamper-prone data, secret food caches and smuggled supplies, has cracked...
...through the near-synonymity of the oedipal drama and marriage with the traditional novel. That is, queer lives might in fact be consisered queer exactly because they don't conform to these stories, and Miller suggests that "gay fabulation...has been inseparable from a series of experiments needing to tamper with the most deeply imprinted aspects of traditional narrative form." Barthes enters this series of experiments with a narrative practice that Miller joins him in naming "the novelesque without the novel." The technique is characterized by an "indifference to overall architechtonics," and a choice to pursue "an incident dislodged from...