Word: ur
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...Abrams had been truthful to himself and the Harvard community in using the statements made by Art Hall, Nelson Boyce and Dr. Fardan in the context in which they were meant in the first place, he would have realized that "[o]ur purpose behind the series is to celebrate Blackness, Black culture, people and history. Basically what she has done is to educate us and to tell us a philosophy of Black history...
Pleasant weather is only part of the attraction. There is a collective sense that to design for Americans requires understanding them viscerally, and a belief that Los Angeles is not just the wellspring of car culture but as close to Ur-America as any one place gets. More prosaically, Southern California represents the biggest automobile showroom anywhere: every year 3% of all new cars on the planet are registered in California, and most of those in Southern California. If you're to succeed in the U.S., you must sell in Southern California. And to do that, observes Peter Fischer...
Volume three describes the rise of the first civilizations in Sumer and Egypt and uses the first written texts as a guide through early history, including the origins of Judaism with the migration of Abraham from Hammurabi's Ur. Gonick then moves from the earliest bible texts to the conquest of Saddam Husseun's idol Nebuchadrezzar to the rise of the Greeks, devoting the last two volumes more extensively to Athenian life (with much cribbing from Herodotus...
...ur investgation of the complaint filed by [Morrison and Edwards] did not reveal sufficient evidence of an unlawful act of discrimination," said Alex Rodriguez, the investgating commissioner on the case, said in a statement released with the decision...
Then Baldwin and the Whiffles -- an Ur-nerd quartet in plaid cummerbunds and smug smiles -- launch into a rendition of Sh-Boom at the charm-school talent show, and Cry-Baby takes off to parody paradise. It becomes a real musical (new songs, production numbers) and a careering melodrama: Grease with grit. Cliches collide, and so do jalopies; lightning strikes; the jailhouse rocks. Lovers lose themselves in a French-kissing dance that would have been banned on Bandstand...