Word: pulling
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...going to take credit for that experiment. It was Paul Rozin who demonstrated it, I simply adapted for a large audience to make a dramatic point. At some point during the talk, I'll pull out a fountain pen and say, "This belonged to Albert Einstein," and people will coo and ask to hold it. People want to physically touch things. And then I'll pull out a tattered sweater and will say, "Here's a sweater from somebody famous. You might want to put it on." Of course, everyone's suspicious, but then you offer them fifty bucks...
...There's no hectoring in Under Construction, and more moments of genuine emotion too. Amid all the absurdist chaos, there's a brief scene in which all the actors, one by one, pull a ringing cellphone out of a bucket, answer a call and proceed simultaneously to have a hushed, fraught conversation with a lover - a Babel of romantic pain. Later the actors gather to recite a round-robin reverie for icons of mid-century American life, with no irony whatsoever: "I remember my father's collection of arrowheads." "I remember loafers with pennies in them." "I remember game rooms...
...renders impossible many of the conditions implicit in the plan, particularly when it comes to fiscal balance (which everyone is throwing by the wayside) and indebtedness (which has been a problem for a long time in the region). The problem is significant because, if things continue deteriorating, it may pull the region farther and farther away from Europe, in a way that could hurt these countries in the long run. And given the many problems they are now facing, the trade-off inherent in the adoption of the euro makes a lot of sense...
...We’re in an offensive slump, and we need to pull ourselves out,” Allard said. “We’ve been changing up the lineup, doing more drills in practice, attacking and trying to improve. Working on our confidence...
...This weekend, my beloved Red Sox are making the trip to Los Angeles to take on the Angels. And while I’ll still undoubtedly pull up Gameday every night, by day I’ll be making the trek to a different diamond, anxious to see just how far a rookie ace can take her team...