Word: wrappings
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...opposition, it turns out. If her paired novels demonstrate that more--e.g., a retelling--can be more, Both Ways shows how less really is too. These 11 stories are quick, powerful jabs, startling in their economy; you're propelled toward each ending, certain she won't be able to wrap it up in one more page, and you're proved wrong every time...
...weekend contours of a gross-out horror movie: the fanboys rush in on Thursday night and Friday, severely depleting the universe of potential customers. Chalk that up to word-of-mouth, viral and virulent. "If you're tweeting," marketing consultant Gordon Paddison told Sharon Waxman of the Wrap, "and people are catching that live and they're out at drinks and were planning on seeing the movie tomorrow - that hurts...
...advocates say that the 2006 rape trial of prominent politician Jacob Zuma was incredibly damaging to their cause. Zuma, who was elected President this year, was tried and acquitted of raping an HIV-positive family friend. He told the court that the woman had dressed provocatively, in a traditional wrap-around kanga, and that it was against Zulu culture for a man to leave a sexually aroused woman unsatisfied. (See a profile of South African president Jacob Zuma...
...restaurant—called Falafel Corner—serves dine-in and take-out Halal food, so-called because it satisfies Islamic dietary laws. The menu features regional specialties such as hummus, a wrap-like sandwich called a shawarma, and its namesake falafel...
Though Frans A. Spaepen will wrap up his term as interim dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences on July 1, he isn't finished with temporary positions just yet. The applied physics professor will serve as interim director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems, where his most visible responsibility will be the far-from-nano task of reducing the center's $6.1 million budget by as much as 20 percent while seeking to maintain the quality of its research opportunities. Colleagues praised Spaepen both for his administrative experience and his background as a material scientist...