Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...junior. Students have the option of "going independent," as many minorities do, or joining one of the highly profiled Princeton eating clubs. Of the dozen or so clubs, only five remain selective--Ivy Club, Cap and Gown, Tiger Inn, Cottage and Tower--which one can join through the traditional "Bicker" process, similar to punching season for Harvard finals clubs. One can also join a nonselective "open" club through a lottery system and waiting list...
...They bicker over the details of their previous meetings. She says that he has learned nothing from her inspirations: "The world's full of highly pertinent male-female situations whose fictional exploration does subtend a viable sociological function-and yet this is the best you can come up with. Muses . . . I mean, Christ...
...much as she radiates pure will in Reds. But Faith Dunlap is a much less interesting woman and wife than Louise Bryant, and provides a much less challenging character for Keaton's talents. Albert Finney portrays her husband George, the archetypal, egotistical-yet-vulnerable San Francisco writer. They bicker in a picturesque old clapboard house softly nestled in the bucolic mellowness of northern California. Of their daughters, the three younger ones giggle, fight and roll their eyes throughout, as if the movie were a 90-minute toothpaste commercial ("Oh, Mom, do we hafta go to bed?"). Dana Hill, though, makes...
Sophomores at Princeton may "bicker" for membership in any of 13 private eating clubs. Frank challenged the existence of the three all-male clubs: Courage, lvy, and Tiger...
Consider the story of two men quarreling in a library. One wants the window open and the other wants it closed. They bicker back and forth about how much to leave it open: a crack, halfway, three quarters of the way. No solution satisfies them both...