Word: badness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Council member Justin A. Barkley '02 presented Phillips with her award, saying "the difference between a good class and a bad class is often the teaching fellow...
...That's ultimately how The Phantom Menace measures up: it's a pretty good bad movie. It does everything it means to do, creating a visually remarkable world inhabited by strange and fascinating creatures, introducing the key players for the next two episodes and playing upon the audience's sentimental attachment to its predecessors. Its nostalgia about what's to come is perhaps its greatest strength and driving Force (forgive me); the plot borrows liberally from Episodes IV, V and VI both in structure and theme, and to good effect...
...than heroes of an Arthurian legend. Wearing stuffed animals--those archetypal symbols of sweetness and caring--on their heads like helmets, they perform an absurd dance as a show of force. Paulus and costume designers Amy Rose Berliner '02 and Amanda Whitman '01 toss around concepts of good and bad, passivity and force, absurdity and authority more freely than professors of postmodern literary theory...
...Bad table manners were defined as chewing with an open mouth, putting elbows on the table, reaching across the table, belching, and talking with food in mouth. Fisher also looked for an increase in good table manners, which he defined as passing food or napkins and keeping hands...
...illegal campaign contributions, was called in by Republicans to testify before the House Government Reform Committee about his contacts with various Chinese officials and executives, including the head of Chinese military intelligence. While his testimony revealed few new details, his appearance on the Hill gave the Clinton administration another bad China day. "Coming on the heels of the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, continuing allegations of Chinese nuclear spying and the recent failure of trade talks with China," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "Chung?s appearance conjured up yet again an image of complete mess...