Word: avoiding
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...richly ironic. Several of the military officers and other characters responsible for the transport or maintenance of her body fall deeply in love with her, until their obsession controls their lives. They speak of Evita as if she were living, and many believe that she has mystical powers. They avoid saying her name, instead referring to her as "Person," "the Deceased," or "that woman." She is both a curse and blessing, but at no time, in life or death, is she ever truly herself...
...work of other artists who have attempted to capture Evita is part of this patchwork, and he mentions fellow Argentinean writers Rodolfo Walsh and Jorge Luis Borges frequently. He even discusses the opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, calling it precisely the simplification he wishes to avoid: "a sing-along article out of selections from the Reader's Digest...
There's never been a medium as interactive for people as the Internet. It's a good thing for users who want to avoid ads, since they can browse right past them--and it may prove to be a bad thing for businesses stuck in the "broadcast mentality...
...tables on Congressional Republicans. Clinton's declaration then that "the era of big government is over" became his most memorable line, while then-Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole effectively nipped his own campaign in the bud with his infamous "Darth Vader" response. But the President also is striving to avoid a repeat of his second Inaugural, which was received by both press and public with a chorus of indifferent grunts. "This is a very different kind of speech," notes McAllister. "It has been said that the Inaugural is the poetry; the State of the Union is the prose." Part...
...scraps of animals left over from slaughter," says Richard Rhodes, author of the soon-to-be-released book Deadly Feast (Simon & Schuster), which traces the history of BSE and similar diseases. "When British cows started to get sick, this practice wasn't banned. Instead industry was merely required to avoid using parts from animals known to be infected. This was hardly foolproof, and it was inevitable that some diseased flesh would be eaten by cows and enter the food chain...