Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students were surveyed by Erin M. Phelps, assistant director for technical services at Radcliffe's Murray Research Center, who presented her findings at the Murray's weekly brown bag lunch yesterday...
...prejudices of its members in New York magazine. Here, instead of reporting on the foibles of the black upper crust, Graham sucks up to it, providing little more than a breathless list of neighborhoods, vacation spots and social clubs dominated by folks who can pass the "brown paper bag" test, meaning that their complexion is lighter than a grocery bag. His criteria for including an institution in the elite class are that he either belongs to it or would like...
...like some kind of witch hunter in describing his conclusion that the Teletubby character Tinky Winky could be gay [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 22]. My daughter is almost two and a regular Teletubbies viewer. One of the first things I noticed when I watched with her was Tinky Winky and his "bag." Bag, schmag! It's a purse, complete with a clasp at the top, just like my grandmother used to carry. I'm not saying the creators were intending to create a gay character, but he is definitely a very different male creature from any we've seen on kids' shows...
...already, right? Surprisingly, no. Although big Steve has racked up six nominations, he only has one win to his name, for 1994's Schindler's List. Get ready to make it two, though, folks. Whether viewed as an underdog or a front-runner, Spielberg's got it in the bag this year, and rightly so. No other director in the world could have created the searingly realistic battle scenes of Private Ryan. Don't talk to me about narrative flaws--with his heart-stopping, neorealist D-Day sequence alone, Spielberg has earned his second statuette...
...warm retirement if she taught at the University of Mississippi. The couple also wanted to live in a place where they could both keep learning, and the university--a five-minute drive from their large modern wood and brick home--offered free classes to anyone over 65 and "brown bag" lectures on a wide variety of topics...