Word: touts
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...Despite the top-notch quality of its students, Deep Springs’ community has critics. Over the past two years, Deep Springs has received an influx of media coverage with prominent articles in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Both articles tout the cowboy-intellectual aspect of the college, and students say in doing so the articles missed the meaningfulness of Deep Springs...
...reported $15 million campaign to counter the movie's message. Full-page newspaper advertisements detailed the measures diamond producers have taken to end the flow of conflict diamonds. An industry website, diamondfacts.org sprang up, retailers were encouraged to educate themselves about the issue, and Zwick was pushed to tout the complete success of the Kimberley Process, a diamond-policing mechanism instituted in 2002 (see sidebar), in the script. He declined...
...When it comes to Cambodia's new hard line, the writing is on the wall - literally. Posters on display at the airport warn foreign visitors that abusing children will be paid for with as many as 20 years in prison. Some posters tout the slogans "Turn a sex tourist into an ex-tourist" and "Abuse a child in this country, go to jail in yours." Child predator message boards on the Web have also taken note, said the IJM investigator who staked out Smith's bar and spoke on condition that his identity remain a secret due to the nature...
...high black heels. Fist pumps and throaty grunts often accompanied the pronouncement of these ragers, linking a sort of primitive energy with potentially ruckus festivities. During the morning-after recap, swollen-eyed revelers regularly utilized their contemporary vocabulary. Over plates of Sunday hash-browns and brunch quesadillas, they would tout the greatest rager of them all, the man who did not go gently into that good night, the one who “raged” very very hard against the morning light and Harvard University police. But what was once humorous, even facetious in its own testosterone-connoting nature...
...reader beleaguered by that meandering and self-righteous introduction, are in for a treat. This review of an overseas exhibit does contain some of the smugness of the jet-setting art critics I previously scorned—but, with the caveat that all but one of the artists I tout have works that can be seen without leaving the eastern seaboard. Or even your computer for that matter. In “The Grande Promenade,” The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) staged a sprawling exhibition of 44 international artists. The brilliant “open...