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Style. It’s a noun (“Britney Spears has style”), a verb (“she styles her own hair every day”) and occasionally an adjective (“Girl, you are stylin’ today!”). It’s even a profession (“Miss Spears is with her stylist right now”). Here in Cambridge, the populace is not exactly known for its innovative sense of style. Even the architecture is too old to be hip. But nonetheless, as FM discovered, Harvard Square...
...sentence; one focuses not on the semantic meaning of the whole (what the sentence actually “means” in the traditional sense) but on the structural relationships of various parts that allow the whole to mean anything in the first place (the relationship of subject, verb and object, that renders the sentence’s meaning intelligible...
...writing Nova in your Nielsen logbook. But they insist they love to buy books, and in 20 minutes of panther-like movements around the store, they indeed spend $352.77. But the most impressive part of the shopping--more than their speed or the way they use Amazon as a verb, or that they buy two of David Sedaris' books and then one of Jonathan Ames' because I point out that "he's funny too"--is Pam's Amex signature: a single, quarter-second loop. These are professional shoppers. Not only do I have a lot to learn, but the dual...
...comfort." For how much longer he doesn't know. "My days are starting to shrink," he admits. But not his faith. When seconded to the region as a teacher 35 years ago, he remembers thinking, "Where better than Esperance?" After all, the French word "derives from the verb esp?rer, to hope...
...government's most salient media campaign to reduce childhood obesity is an initiative called Verb, which encourages kids to be more physically active. Absent from its promotional materials, however, is any mention of the need for children to cut back on junk food. --By Daren Fonda