Word: appealing
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During my numerous pilgrimages to the exhibit, I kept returning to one photograph (which had a certain voyeuristic appeal) of a couple getting ready for their ceremony. The young principals were in relative deshabille--she in a camisole and fuzzy slipers, he, barefoot in trousers and unbuttoned shirt. Their postures suggested the easy familiarity which comes from living together. If this then was the case, why, other than the obvious tax benefits, were they getting married...
...later that night that I was informed that the whole interview and photograph had been a prank performed by two Final Club members as part of their club initiation. For those of you who are unaware, Women Appealing for Change is currently sponsoring a boycott of the nine all-male Final Clubs in an appeal that they go co-ed. As part of our goal, we have done our best to avoid antagonistic relations, and worked hard to create a friendly atmosphere and inspire healthy dialogue between Final Club members and the rest of the Harvard community. Our movement...
President Clinton has been compared to a lot of different people. His admirers liken his appeal to John F. Kennedy '40. His opponents see in his background and his performance Jimmy Carter. Pretentious Northerners sometimes view him as a smarter version of the Southern "Bubba." And of course, music-lovers think he looks like a poor man's Elvis. On evaluating his first year in office, I have concluded that he is none of these. In fact, Clinton is the real-life incarnation of the Energizer Bunny...
...into his gunsight. He keeps as a servant a Jewish woman named Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz), whom he constantly beats and humiliates precisely because against all dictates of ideology, he loves her. The point about this man is that like Nazism itself, his irrationality cannot be contained by any appeal to civility, any system of legal or moral constraint. He is evil in all its banality, all its primal ferocity...
Several news organizations plan to appeal the ban on Jan. 31. Meanwhile, Canadians will have to wait to learn the extent of Teale's alleged depravities -- or stay tuned to points south...