Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STRETCHED HER legs in the ample passenger space of her husband Jim's light green Mercedes 280-S as it cruised north along the winding Route 65 to the resort town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It was a mild, brilliantly sunny winter day in early 1978. Susan was wearing bell-bottom pants and a tight white tank top; she knew her husband liked the impression she made as they traveled along the rural highways. Susan gazed out on the rugged hills of north-central Arkansas and thought how pretty it was. They passed occasional signs advertising campgrounds and raft trips...
...same bulls who had gleefully stampeded in the midst of corporate layoffs let out a bellow of pain last Friday, when the Labor Department reported that the U.S. had created 705,000 jobs in February, more than twice what had been expected. The market plunged from the opening bell, closing at 5470.45, the third largest single-day drop in its history (though in percentage terms, the decline, 3%, was nowhere near the steepest on record...
...might be." His sidekick, a dog named Dogbert, is far savvier--and merciless about his owner's many failings. From its debut in 1989, the cartoon featured some of what Adams calls "cubicle culture": a natural subject, since he himself occupied Cubicle 4S700R as an applications engineer at Pacific Bell. (He has also been a computer programmer and a commercial lender and was robbed twice at gunpoint during a stint as a bank teller.) But the absurdities of Dilbert's workday shared space with his hopeless dating life and Dogbert's periodic attempts to conquer the world...
...someone claiming to be God. Once the lights go up, the rest of the play is pure sugary sweetness. A group of overalls- and pigtail-clad performers engages in a bout of happy dancing and 100-watt smiling, not seen since Greg, Marcia and the Bunch donned the pastel bell-bottoms and harmonized to "Sunshine Day." One of the actors soon emerges with a cordless microphone and leads the rest of the group in singing the first of many toe-tapping, yet insipid songs with cheddary titles like "Learn Your Lessons Well" and "Light of the World...
Senior faculty members include two current House Masters and one former master: Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences John E. Dowling of Leverett House, Gray Professor of Symbiotic Botany Donald A. Pfister of Kirkland House and Bell Professor of Economics Jeffrey G. Williamson, the former master of Mather House. Stephen M. Kosslyn, professor of psychology and the department's head tutor, will also serve on the committee...