Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general I think that it's a good idea to raise the bar somewhat," said Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Susan R. Suleiman. "Unlike many other universities, we only have one year of language requirements, and that means that the competency we're looking for to go out of the language requirement should be fairly good...
Nguyen went to People's Republik, a bar on Mass Ave. near Central Square, to study whether men were more successful in picking up women when they were in groups or when they were alone...
What Cesar ultimately uncovers is that he was cryogenically frozen after his death by the nefarious firm Life Extension and has been "reincarnated" in a dream world in the year 2145. Life Extension selected the night that Cesar was at the bar as the one in which to splice his real and fantasy life...
...inscrutable: "Men are wonderfully upfront here. But you go out, you have a lovely time, you're asked a lot of questions, and you don't know if the guy's ever going to call again." Following her nightly performances on Broadway, Friel often goes to a divey neighborhood bar, where she has been learning to swing dance. We suspect that she doesn't run into Dame Judi Dench or Kate Winslet there...
...exercise for two. Hare then went one better (or one lesser) by appearing onstage alone, recounting his trip to the Middle East and calling it a play, Via Dolorosa. Another well-received import from Britain, The Weir, is a 90-minute chamber piece in which the denizens of a bar in Ireland trade ghost stories. This year's Pulitzer Prize for drama went to Wit, an affecting play about a woman dying of cancer, but essentially an expanded monologue...