Word: picked
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...hicks, just to name a few. Besides intentional differences in dress and preferred weekend social activities, a major defining characteristic of each group was their musical choice. Whether it was the rap blaring out of a low-riding Honda Civic or the twanging guitars pouring out of a Chevy pick-up's windows, individuals and groups often used music as a projection of their identity. School dances always became the musical battleground, with half the attendees refusing to dance to a particular song or musical style. Insecure teenagers used the stability of a musical genre as a defining, constant characteristic...
...sound and fury: the Faulkner plaque on the Lars Anderson bridge. The plaque is small, bronze, weathered and nearly impossible to pick out against the brick on the bridge's northwest side; it's inscribed "to Quentin Compson, drowned in a field of honeysuckle." Cognoscenti will recognize the bridge as the supposed location of one of the novel's great tragedies...
...more ambitious solution would be to convince donors to give to a central donation fund controlled by the administration, instead of allowing each donor to pick his or her pet project and leave the rest of the University to fend for itself. Then, funds could be directed to the departments or facilities that most urgently need them, not the ones that naturally attract the greatest attention from financial heavyweights...
...Republicans each had 37 seats, with two held by independents. The Democrats managed to persuade one of the independents to join their ranks, but then Republicans peeled off the other independent, Senator William Mahone of Virginia, by dangling before him the Agriculture Committee chairmanship and the power to pick the Senate's Sergeant at Arms. Republican Vice President Chester A. Arthur cast the tie-breaking vote so the G.O.P. could take over the chamber. But legislative business quickly ground to a halt when angry Democrats refused to show up for any floor votes...
...doing this on NBC, the budget would be a few hundred grand more and it would be easier to do, and it'd be off the air in about six weeks. The idea was to not be canceled this time." And if TV Funhouse does fail? "I'll pick up the best pieces and move on," he says. "You can kill a show, but you can't kill an idea as good as a puppet having sex with an animal...