Word: objecting
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...only potential objections that may arise involve the notorious “Wiffle Ball” trademark on both the ball and bat. I can certainly understand why one would object to the monopolization of the whiffle ball industry...
Nish scoffs at traditionalists in the U.S. who object to meddling with the sacred cows of Japanese cuisine. "The Japanese are very good at borrowing things and making it their own - even in their cooking," he says. "Tempura came from the Portuguese. It's been argued that even sushi was a Korean development. So why shouldn't we borrow from the Japanese and make it ours...
...counter-strategy of politicizing aesthetics. But the mechanical reproducibility of which Benjamin wrote did not consist solely of such Lacanian moments-in-the-mirror as showing the masses a videotape of themselves. He was concerned more broadly that “the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition.” The image, reproduced ad nauseum, need no longer be encountered in context; it can meet the viewer, appropriately sanitized, on the viewer’s own terms...
...economic harm to Montenegro of trying to go it alone at a time when Western Europe is heading in the opposite direction toward greater union. But expectations are low in the Balkans. If Yugoslavia manages to disapear without triggering more death and destruction, no one will seriously object...
...west of Austin, it's easy to catch the fever. At Joe's Jefferson Street Cafe, cell phones of Realtors chirp away during lunch with calls from buyers willing to dole out $3 million to $4 million for hardscrabble land with little productive value. "Cost is not an object," marvels appraiser Billy Snow, cutting into his chicken-fried steak. Architectural firms such as Kerrville's Artisan Group are busy building homes as big as country clubs with private jetports. "People have built castles, actual castles," says Kerr County's chief appraiser, Fourth Coates. "They even change the direction of streams...