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...surface, "Man and Superman" is a delightfully Shavian romantic comedy which reverses conventional roles by making the woman the vigilant pursuer and the man the hapless prey. The woman, Ann Whitefield (Kristin Flanders), is past mistress of twisting men around her little finger, and she has designs on her childhood companion, Jack tanner (played with dynamic vigor by Don Reilly), a young man and a decided taste for overbearing oratory. Much to his consternation, Jack is appointed one of Ann's guardians after her father's death--the other one being a confirmed old conservative, Roderick Ramsden (Alvin Epstein...
...relationship was private until another officer under investigation for misconduct pointed the finger at Zigo and Flinn. The two agreed to deny their affair, and she signed a statement in November saying the relationship was platonic. But Zigo, unbeknown to Flinn, blurted out everything to investigators, who probed for details about their foreplay, birth control and where they had sex. The official report is so graphic it is stamped WARNING: THIS REPORT CONTAINS EXPLICIT MATERIAL. In mid-December, the Air Force gave Flinn a written order not to come within 100 ft. of Zigo, but she was already living with...
...contemporary conservative thought, or its whiny writers really fancy themselves to be the anointed defenders of Western civilization from the post-modern and multicultural hordes. Undergraduate conservatives are constantly publishing articles that are so offensive that it is appropriate to occasionally flip them the written equivalent of a middle finger...
...might also play a role in drug abuse, for similar reasons. Both these genes, it turns out, contain the blueprints for assembling what scientists call a receptor, a minuscule bump on the surface of cells to which biologically active molecules are attracted. And just as a finger lights up a room by merely flicking a switch, so dopamine triggers a sequence of chemical reactions each time it binds to one of its five known receptors. Genetic differences that reduce the sensitivity of these receptors or decrease their number could diminish the sensation of pleasure...
Motorists raise a middle finger as they pass Koskovich's home on High Street (where Sam Donaldson's limo was parked last week and where a sign reads IF YOU ARE A NEWS REPORTER PLEASE GO AWAY, THANK YOU). There Bertha Lippincott cracked open the door, as the plastic sheeting over the front window rattled in the wind. Sobbing, she protested her grandson's innocence: "There were four other names given that were involved...