Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, my brief discussions of Lizzie Borden and William Faulkner, made me remember how luxurious interaction with teachers can be. Forgetting my status on the bottom rung of the Harvard academic ladder, I traded scholastic insights with a professor, something I had never anticipated doing as a first-year. I was even accepted to one of the seminars...
...After a brief summer renovation, Apley Court, the small yet stately dorm on Holyoke Street that had long served as overflow housing for upperclass students, opened its doors Saturday to a crop of new tenants-34 first-years...
Though the University filed a brief in the Bakke case-and though Harvard College's admissions process was heralded in the majority decision as the model to be followed-it will rely on the efforts of various higher education associations to present its view in this case. Twenty-five associations filed a brief two weeks ago that encouraged the court to issue a narrow ruling pertaining only to the specifics of the case...
...fits, you must admit. Christopher Darden, Simpson prosecutor, author and sometime TV actor, may have a new job: dad. Miki Gaut has filed a paternity suit against Darden, claiming he's the father of her three-month-old daughter Tiffany. Darden, who cops to a brief "friendship" with the woman, has said if he's the father, he wants primary custody of the child and has filed his own suit to that...
...more money, he says, than it would be worth--to create a fully realized, ready-for-its-close-up human from digital scratch. But that day is surely coming. Computer graphics--CG, in industry shorthand--have already been used to create loosely rendered virtual stunt people suitable for brief action sequences. The buzz has it that James Cameron's forthcoming Titanic will represent a leap forward with its use of CG extras, detailed down to the misty breath they exhale in the cold night air, although one source who has seen completed footage from the film says the overall effect...