Word: tarnishable
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...creating such a glow around the nation's dinner tables that a family spending barrage is about to render household goods scarce and send consumer prices spiraling through the roof. It's an interesting theory. It's also a leap that could shut down the expansion prematurely and tarnish Greenspan's sterling reputation--potentially derailing Al Gore's presidential train, much as a weak economy did George Bush...
Furthermore, I wonder if Internet voting somehow decreases the value of the vote that is cast: Do we tarnish consent, somehow, by divorcing ourselves so completely from the consequences of our actions? By allowing citizens to vote from any given computer and with only the click of a mouse to connect one to his or her choice, we remove the physical connection (traveling to the voting booth, pulling the lever) between the voter and the vote cast, and perhaps, in the process, also lose some of the gravity that ought to be associated with the choices that we make when...
...story of Icarus flying into the sun. It seems like a very banal, everyday object; they're floating everywhere. I think I have one from the Alamo, you know, famous sites...I travel a lot. If you're traveling, you can't carry much with you. Feather, dust, tarnish rubbing--those things are easy to collect and they're not things that people mind you taking. The feather came from Freud's pillow when I borrowed it for The Maybe and I saw the feather sticking out of the pillow and I got terribly excited about the feather. The feather...
Parker is the consummate pack-rat, collecting and cherishing all kinds of seemingly worthless objects--rocks, feathers, tarnish rubbings. She combines these materials in ways that are often stunning visually, and, at the same time, she uses them as a means of making associations and narratives. She says that she is intrigued by Freud's theory of the unconscious and has made a photogram of a white feather that came from the pillow on the infamous couch. The feather is associated with slumber, slumber with dreams, dreams with the unconscious and then we're back again at Freud. Parker often...
...goal did little to tarnish a strong 30-save performance for Jonas...