Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lakin, who has worked as a Harvard security guard since November 1987, said yesterday that his fellow officers have helped him attain a better knowledge of how to patrol the area around the University...
...headed off to the comedy-club circuit. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was impressed with Lawrence's "natural charm and presence" and hired him as host of Def Comedy Jam. Lawrence also landed scene-stealing minor roles in movies like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. "To attain universal appeal, the conventional wisdom is that you should dilute, homogenize black comedy," says filmmaker Warrington Hudlin, who cast Lawrence in House Party and Boomerang. "His approach is just the opposite." In January Lawrence will release a comedy concert film...
...subsumes oneself completely in the sensations, which is ultimately what he does. His inquiry into the coming of the Asiatic fever is his last foray into reality, but it does not touch him enough to save himself. His death in Venice ultimately comes as he is trying to attain the mystically complete subordination of the self to the senses...
...Crimson has overcome all adversity to attain what was once viewed as the unattainable. With an emotional 34-27 victory over Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H., Saturday, Harvard clinched the New England Regional Championship for the third time in four years...
...with the brightest of hopes and overwhelming support threatened to turn into a morass -- and may yet -- is a cautionary story with a number of obvious, but ever recurring, lessons: think through all the ramifications of what you are doing, set clear goals, make sure the forces assigned can attain those goals, and do not get distracted. By last week's disastrous battle, all these lessons had been taught the hard...