Word: objecting
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...dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give C's. How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, "Illustrate;" "Be specific;" etc.? They mean it. The illustrations...
MCAS opponents also object to the test's format, saying it affects the school calendar and curriculum...
...should keep in mind that "Sanitation" was probably a rushed creation, most likely developed after the Sensation spectacle of last December. But this does not excuse "Sanitation" as a work of art. Unlike Haacke's earlier works, there is no consideration for ecology; every object in "Sanitation" seems unjustifiably placed, like Darwin without niche theory. Never do the rectilinear and exclusionary lines formulate a cohesive composition. All in all, the composition is balanced to the point of fragmentation, making it difficult to view the exhibit as a whole. The only exception to the excess of orthogonality is Haacke's diagonal...
...risk of sounding like Ronald Reagan in his famous fable of the Christmas pony in the manure pile. A person must have access to optimism - not often an available grace in areas of great poverty and disease (the African AIDS belt, for example). And it depends what the object of your optimism is. An optimist who hopes to start a flourishing small business is different from an optimist who hopes to blow himself to heaven by driving a car bomb into the Great Satan's military barracks...
...queen (who puts most formal-goers to shame with her swanky leggy machinations on stage) requesting that the town's lost and found office search for her boss' missing penis, which had fallen off the previous night when s/he was watching a wrestling match. Never actually mentioning the lost object by name, the lost and found description becomes a search "for an object that is soft, but can get hard, and is of tremendous importance...