Word: slinking
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There are some nights on which you know you're going to be bad, and as I slink down the sleepy western reaches of Hong Kong's Hollywood Road-passing grimy shop fronts and shabby apartment buildings-I become aware that this is one of them. Because just for tonight, I'm going to mentally tear up the mildly disappointing results of a physical checkup I had three months ago, and play fast and loose with cardiovascular health. I'm headed for the Cheese Room, triglyceride levels be damned...
...Photographers: From the Hallmark Cards Australian Photographic Collection," and 17 years later the medium she returns to is quieter and less declarative. Walking through "Light Sensitive" at the Ian Potter Centre, one could be forgiven for thinking that the era of the defining image has passed. Pictures prefer to slink from easy definition: neither one thing nor the other. Rather than being a cop-out, though, it's perhaps a simple acknowledgment that life is more complicated...
...while concessions it extracts from University Hall, but also in the entertainment it provides (i.e. the debate it promotes and the celebrity status it can grant to certain leaders). Whether pushing for calendar reform or a student endowment, the UC’s new chief shouldn’t slink into the shadows of presidential duty. He must embrace the campus-wide spotlight that is the UC presidency...
...Harvard’s undergrad record label Veritas Records, and a representative from Nitro Tone, and they’re quick in their deliberation.Then, surprise of surprises, the dark-horse Sinister Turns end up with first prize! After Hours takes second, leaving the Bulldogs’ bands to slink away empty handed, their tails between their legs. Maybe they’ll have better luck next year, on their own turf. As the dregs of the tailgaters begin lumbering toward the second half of an embarrassing athletic spectacle inside Harvard Stadium, everyone who rocked is well aware that the most...
...Abbas does dismiss the Hamas government, it could trigger a deadly uprising in the Palestinian territories. Prime Minister Haniyeh will not slink off quietly, and his Hamas forces are more disciplined than Abbas's men and equally well armed. So far, Fatah and Hamas shrugged off pleas from Arab governments that the only victor in a fight between them would be their common foe, Israel. One miltia linked to Abbas, the al-Aksa Martyr's Brigade, has vowed to start assassinating Hamas leaders in Palestine and abroad. Israelis military officials are also alarmed by the chaos in Gaza; they fear...