Word: slight
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...ninth-floor studio of her New York City atelier, Wang comes across like the overachiever who is also a rebel, the A student who ditches class more than once in a while. She has delicate Asian features but packs a wallop of American wit. Her look is feminine and slight, yet she dresses, she says, "like a boy." (Today, it's Yohji Yamamoto black leggings, black T shirt, charcoal ribbed cashmere sweater and a phenomenally oversize jeweled cross.) Partway through college at Sarah Lawrence, she left for Paris, presumably to study, but it was really to hang out with...
...While it is difficult to dispute the impact of revered British writers such as Shakespeare, academic readers should learn to actively critique their work—not to idolize but to continually question their cultural value, as they would when reading any book. Even this slight change in approach would prevent the canon—and the department—from becoming stagnant, and would encourage students to think more creatively and intelligently about what constitutes a “great work...
...legal ban on opinion polling in the last fortnight of the campaign, ruling conservatives and rival socialists appear to be locked in one of the toughest election standoffs in recent history. A flurry of opinion polls published before the blackout showed the conservative New Democracy party had a slight lead against PASOK, the socialist party that incumbent Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis toppled in 2004, ending more than two decades of almost uninterrupted socialist rule. What's more, the August 31 surveys showed that neither of the two major parties had polled over 40%, raising concern among pundits, pollsters and analysts...
...junior Jay Connolly’s staunch play in net, Harvard managed to stave off a feisty comeback attempt by UC Santa Rosa in the third quarter. Ludwick, who scored once in each quarter, added the game-breaking goal in the third period with the Crimson holding only a slight one-goal advantage. Connolly insured the victory at the other end of the pool with a point-blank save to keep the Bear Cubs stuck at 4. “That first game was kind of a test to see where we were at,” Byrd said...
...that they might be moving in that direction. We stopped it from happening before it happened. We consider the ONLF a terrorist organization. Now the U.S. is more focused on international terrorism. The ONLF does not have an international dimension to its terrorist activities. So therefore there is a slight divergence of perspective...