Word: formalizes
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...know why it's acceptable for rich women to go to formal events dressed like the female Lamborghini team from The Cannonball Run. But perhaps it's because women at both ends of the economic spectrum have a lot of leisure time and therefore are more focused on sexuality. Or it may be that the rich and the poor are simply freer from society's rules than those in the middle. Or maybe what links nonworking poor women with rich trophy wives is that they are commodified the most. I don't really care. I'm just going to start...
...Pulitzer-prizewinning history professor who regaled his students with fabricated tales about his combat experiences in Vietnam; for one year without pay from his teaching post at Mount Holyoke College; in South Hadley, Mass. Ellis, author of such popular works as Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, issued a formal apology in June after the Boston Globe reported he had never served overseas. He must relinquish his endowed chair...
...though, claim to have been fighting for the same things, and have promised, in principle, to hand over their weapons in light of the politicians' agreement. Still, everything from the size of the guerrillas' armory to the timetable for the surrender of weapons is disputed, and there is no formal agreement against which such disputes can be mediated...
Towle's bombshell provoked outrage from two directions. To some, it was shocking that a Catholic priest would violate his calling by betraying a penitent. (Towle says Fornes' statement wasn't part of a formal religious confession.) To others, the shock was that a man of God kept silent while two innocent men languished behind bars for a crime they didn't commit...
...harmonica-playing contest and left his home in Baltimore for New York City at 14. By the late 1930s he was performing in Carnegie Hall, still playing by ear; Ingrid Bergman, with whom he had an affair, was said to have persuaded him to pursue formal music training. In 1947, his liberal politics led to printed charges of communist sympathies; after suing unsuccessfully for libel, he emigrated to Britain in the early 1950s...