Word: archly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hanover in March. Captain Laela Sturdy and fellow senior Courtney Egelhoff did their best to make their last game a sweet one, but Dartmouth senior guard Courtney Banghart was tenacious in her final home game and ensured that the Crimson seniors would not find a second win over their arch-rivals...
...space in between. One engineering concentrator confides that the arrangement would shatter and collapse in the face of January winds. But Harvard planners appear impervious to such timidity. Their program is delightfully simple: A different class would live in each vertical post, with a dining hall in the top arch, and the House library and common rooms in the spokes connecting it. You may laugh or cringe and say the whole thing is just preposterous, but as everyone atop the Harvard food chain likes to point out, we've done rasher things before. So let's talk interiors...
...Harvard's come-from-behind victory over its arch-rival is generally considered to be the second most memorable moment of The Game ever, trailing only undefeated Harvard's 29-29 slaughter of previously undefeated Yale...
...court-show spoof All Rise for Julian Clary, Clary--a proudly queeny gay man in dandyish paisleys and an ascot--dispenses arch, arbitrary justice to aggrieved parties: it's like the Judge Oscar Wilde Show. And Goodness Gracious Me offers postcolonialist sketch comedy from a British-Indian troupe...
While beauty is a given, what you don't expect is the uncensored river of provocative commentary, delivered with the bemused arch of one thin eyebrow (just the left one) while her delicate hands conduct an air ballet. "Everyone is so constipated by fear in Hollywood. Everybody cares so much; they care about your hair, about your clothes," she says, raising that eyebrow to indicate they don't really care at all. "I was surprised at how insincere people could be, but that's the currency of Hollywood...