Word: stringing
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...symptoms are everywhere. Sports stars who can't string together a grammatical sentence in a post-game interview show up on the covers of hardback autobiographies written "with" a ghostwriter (whose name appears in small print at the bottom...
...Bogota trip was not a major turning point in pre-gulf war diplomacy. Nor should anyone confuse Quayle for a member of Bush's first string on international or domestic affairs. But the secret chores he performed on the Latin swing demonstrated that Quayle does more -- and does better -- than he is usually given credit...
...Bush's words did not calm the jitters most Americans have had since Quayle, looking like a groupie greeting a rock idol, manically accepted Bush's invitation to become his running mate in a bizarre riverside ceremony in New Orleans. The string of verbal gaffes that followed only deepened the impression that Quayle will never be ready for the presidency...
...this difference in travel time that sets up Gott's time machine. Imagine a rocket ship moving at 99.9999% of light speed and taking the shorter of the two paths. In principle it could reach the far side of a string at exactly the same moment as a light ray traveling the longer path. In essence the ship would be moving faster than light, and under the peculiar logic of special relativity, it would thus go backward in time. For complex reasons, the ship has to make a complete loop around the string, and thus a single string will...
...Yorker's reputation can survive this assertion of privilege is a puzzle. Nowhere in journalism is the quote more sanctified. A typical New Yorker profile is nothing but a string of lengthy quotations from the subject and his or her associates, with a connecting tissue of irrelevant scene- setting detail. Malcolm has admitted to fabricating some of this detail, such as moving the site of a conversation from her flat in New York City to a restaurant in California. The myth is that by relying so heavily on seemingly verbatim quotations, the journalist is functioning as a crystal-clear piece...