Word: biting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sisterhood of Streetwalkers should sue every play or screenwriter who utilizes the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold; Hauptman uses two of them, played by Diane D'Aquila and Gayle Keller. D'Aquila brings more cynical bite to her roll than called for, and gets saddled with the metaphoric burden of being not just a prostitute, but an American Indian prostitute...
...Encampment played the serious but friendly game of "difficult but not impossible entry" with Vice-President Daniel Steiner. We learned not to be afraid with each other we weren't going to bite his leg, but he was still going to have to touch our heads gently as he tried to walk a tightrope through our seated bodies. The wild thing about this was that Dean Epps, Dean Fox, and Vice President Steiner were amused, tolerant, and indulgent, They came and listended while President Bok stayed away. We don't know which of them are actually on our side...
...pitch. That's why people don't know how to chant Home: anymore because the oral tradition has been lost. And they have to figure it out from the diacritical marks. If you become sensitized to the pitch of the vowels you will begin to appreciate the consonants and bite them like Bob Dylan does, or as any great singer does. You also savor the vowels as physical marbles in your month and become more interested in the purely musical quality of language...
...cause at most a modest reduction in the percentage of eligible seniors, would increase the number of courses counted when grade-point averages are computed, and impose higher minimum standards for certain degrees. Some Faculty members are believed to want more drastic changes designed to take an even larger bite out of the honor group than would the planned amendments, which would first affect freshmen entering next fall...
...company's stock shot up ten points in a week, going from $41 to $51. The product looked like a winner. It would cost only $600 at a time when comparable equipment sold for about twice as much. With a gentle jab at a competitor, Adam was going to bite the Apple. But sales foundered when the machine turned out to be plagued with glitches. Even a price cut to $499 and several new features were not enough to save the product. Coleco President Arnold Greenberg last week announced that the company was dropping Adam, leaving the low-priced...