Word: brits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles reflected yesterday's tone by quoting fellow Brit W.H. Auden. The dean said first-years should not allow competition with other students to be the standard by which they measured themselves...
...their unique problems. Exceedingly attractive women, the audience learned, lead complicated emotional lives. Many fret that the world will never look beyond the height of their cheekbones; they are worried that they will never be perceived as intelligent. "I was ashamed to become a model," admitted Jenny, a waifish Brit. "My parents are physicists...
...stood, a chipper Brit in black, with a shock of pepper and salt locks, leaning on his very first upright bass--an old $150 job. To his right was crooked music stand full of tricks of the free trade: various and sundry kitchen utensils, brushes, sticks, bows, and scrubbers--all of which he managed to employ in his performance that night...
...with Lennox Lewis, the British boxer who defeated him in the 1988 Olympics. Lewis, another 6-ft. 5-in. power tower, inherited one of Bowe's three heavyweight titles after Bowe and his manager-mentor, Rock Newman, rejected the World Boxing Council's timetable for a fight with the Brit. Lewis has defended the W.B.C. title twice, but he hasn't performed as impressively as his American rival...
...over the place, it ain't too risky. Besides, think of the names we can get. Ya' know the Industry--in all its Hollywoodagain-stAIDS glamour--will support us bigtime: I'm sure we can get RichardGere, AnjelicaHuston, Lily-Tomlin, and BDWong. Oh yeah, and what about that Brit?....ya' know, the gay one...McKellen. And I'm sure MatthewModine, AlanAlda, PhilCollins, SwoosieKurtz, and SteveMartin will atleast be interested. I'm tellin' ya'. I smellahit. It'll be a smash. Whuddayathink...