Word: bi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jeff C. Tarr '96, a Digitas co-president, said the group hopes to publish the newsletter bi-monthly, beginning sometime this semester...
...Niche marketing has worked for blacks, for tots, for older women. These days the small, independent film movement, like theater and the book industry, tolerates and promotes gay themes. Some of last year's most successful independent movies -- Farewell My Concubine, The Wedding Banquet, Orlando -- were homo-, bi- or pansexual in spirit. "A film like The Wedding Banquet is more beloved by gays," says Richard Jennings, executive director of the lobby group Hollywood Supports, "because it's made for the gay community. We can more readily identify with...
...bi-annual ritual has nothing to do with grading students on their performance during the semester--there's already time enough for that. Instead, this is the week at the end of each semester when students trudge from class to class, filling out those pink bubble sheets full of questions about courses, professors and teaching fellows. The resulting CUE Guide is used by unsuspecting first-years and by even more experienced upperclass students in the pursuit of the "right" classes to make a great semester...
...these harbingers of a long slide into bi- or multilingualism and a culturally fragmented citizenry -- the Quebecification of America? There are those who fear so. "Whatever happend to the idea of E pluribus unum?" asks Robert Parker, chairman of Arizonans for Official English, an organization endorsing English as the state's official language. Republican Representative Toby Roth of Wisconsin is so alarmed he has introduced a bill -- the Declaration of Official Language Act -- that would eliminate bilingual ballots and require English-proficiency exams for all citizenship applications. Last March, California Republican Congressman John Doolittle submitted a constitutional amendment that would...
...drafts of each) and several smaller assignments. No sooner do we crank out four 10-to-12 pagers than the semester is over; our only certain improvement is our adroitness at fast writing. Instead of mastering the careful craft of revision, we are pushed into a cycle of the bi-weekly expos "all-nighter...