Word: trait
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Your sexiest physical trait: My waist to hip ratio (0.7)…no, just kidding, my eyes...
Friendliness is the only common trait among dancers. People of all ages, sizes and backgrounds mingle as they switch partners during each dance. “In contra you really dance with everybody else in the room,” says Newman. Participants range from MIT grad students to retired schoolteachers. This eclectic bunch are self-described “nurses and nerds,” with a healthy dose of Harvard alums mixed...
Edwards is superstitious, which is a curious trait in a campaign that sells itself as being all about optimism. He is sunshine all year round, unchanged in the vision of hope and help he lays out for voters. The least known and least experienced one in the field was also the only one to pick a plan and not blink when Dean was getting traction, the only one not to get caught slicing someone else's tires. For months his vision of two Americas made whole and fair again felt a little mushy and out of step with these tumultuous...
...choose singles rather than pay $18 for filler-loaded albums (which were invented more for business than artistic reasons in the first place), it frees them to sample more genres and artists. The trade-off is a flightier, more mercurial and more tabloid pop culture. Its one unifying trait, perhaps, is simply the desire to check out what all the fuss is about. But at least we're still connected enough to care about one another's fusses now and again...
Enter Clark and the American flag. The choreography, the physical embrace of Old Glory, is both compelling and weird. There is an over-the-top intensity to it that is a Clark signature trait. The man is so tightly wound that he seems to be an ambulatory tourniquet. But he is wildly intelligent--and intellectually adventurous. His stump discourses on economics are as sophisticated as his sense of military strategy--if often a bit too sophisticated for his audience. Asked in Nashua, N.H., last week about the trade deficit, Clark noted in the course of a dense reply, "Those...