Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who pass the written test then play a mock Jeopardy! game and participate in a brief interview, said Laine T. Sutten, spokesperson for Jeopardy...
...aesthetic conception of this production is intriguing. The "town" of Titipu has been transformed into "Titipu, Inc."--a software mega-corporation--and the noblemen of the town become identically-suited business executives who try to juggle their brief-cases, beepers and cellular phones to amusing effect. The "schoolgirl" chorus which accompanies our recently-graduated heroines has been transformed, through a stroke of sheer genius, into a hyper-modernized version of the Japanese schoolgirl: the archetype found ubiquitously in the cartoons (anime) which permeate Japanese popular culture. Decked out in characteristic anime schoolgirl uniforms--white blouses, hot pink neckties, suggestively tiny...
...season to be annoyed. In the brief weeks between Thanksgiving and winter break, most of us are so swamped with schoolwork and other obligations that we scarcely have time for ourselves. And as the semester grinds to a close, we often find ourselves in a constant state of being annoyed with people. There is temporary annoyance, when lack of sleep or too much pressure leads us to see everyone around us as getting in our way. Then there is annoyance as an attitude toward life, when we see everyone around us as getting in our way all the time...
Kudos to James A. Johnson for his amusing commentary piece on the boxer-brief schism...
...allowed Fidel Castro to establish a beachhead for communism in the western hemisphere. Kennedy did not act effectively when the Berlin Wall was erected, profoundly affecting the NATO alliance, and he increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The consequences of his misguided policies plagued the U.S. long after his brief, disastrous presidency. RICHARD BLAUW South Holland...