Word: cues
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...sand to cover, and Whitehead is determined not to miss a grain of it. At times his prose mimics the speed of the butterscotch Benji ladles out at his summer job scooping ice cream at Jonni Waffle. ("Is the toppings bar ready for its close-up? Let us cue the orchestra as we pan lovingly, lingeringly, over the delights in the tiny containers.") But if the slow zoom sometimes verges on the picayune, it also highlights the eternal puzzle of summer pacing. Benji and his friends can't wait to get out to Sag, but once they do, they...
...campus-renowned animal-lover Ronald N. Lacey. “All of the studies are benign,” assures Hauser. “The dogs will get free rewards for finding things.” The study will explore dogs’ sensitivity to human interaction and cues. “We are trying to understand whether dogs’ behavior really reflects the way we see and feel about the world,” says Hauser. “Dogs are very sensitive to human cues, such as following a finger to a target object...
...stated aim. When asked if ROTC should be invited back onto campuses it’s been excluded from in the past, President Obama answered, “Yes. I think we’ve made a mistake on that.” Harvard should take a cue from one of its most beloved graduates and change its ROTC policy...
...Cue Chambers' 15 minutes of white-hot celebrity. She did the TV talk shows. Warner Books published her autobiography, Marilyn Chambers: My Story. At the New School for Social Research she was a guest speaker at the first session of its course "Pornography Uncovered, Eroticism Exposed." She got a tiny role in the 1970 Barbra Streisand comedy The Owl and the Pussycat. With her manager-husband Chuck Trayner (who had earlier promoted, married and misused Lovelace), she planned her next big step: breaking into mainstream films. (Read a Q&A with porn star Ron Jeremy...
...Bible,” strike a world-weary tone. “I don’t want the salesman knocking at my door,” Butler intones. “I don’t want to live in America no more.” Right on cue, the cab stops for a red light right next to a Best Buy store, and its glowing sign floats in space next to Butler’s countenance. Even as he laments the cultural deadening of that old-time American religion—namely, consumerism?...