Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Richard Schickel. "Whether the threat to domestic tranquillity is a ferocious shark, invading spacemen or a rogue volcano (as in Dante's Peak), it reassures us that nice people, if they are smart, brave and quick on their feet, will somehow survive." Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people. It?s the same with the actors. Cool Pierce Brosnan and warm Linda Hamilton understand that their job is mainly to provide human scale...
...return of roadsters and the introduction of newly designed models [BUSINESS, Dec. 2] are welcome to us aficionados, some of whom remember the '50s and '60s. But you should brush up on your automobilia. You said, "The carmakers will revert to the national racing colors for their flagship images: silver for Germany, white for Italy, red for Britain." You got only one of three national auto-racing colors right, Germany's, which is indeed silver. But Britain's is green, not red, and Italy's is red, not white. DONALD L. STURGEON Wilmington, Delaware
...Mirjana Markovic (Ph.D. in sociology) is easy to mock in effigy. Dowdy but vain, she dyes her hair jet black and often tucks a single plastic flower in it. No one is allowed to imitate the style in her presence. Indeed, no one is allowed to see her brush her hair, not even the President. He once walked in while she was grooming, and she began to weep. She also wept as a teenager whenever she did not get the highest marks in class. She was obsessed with Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, who mourned for a slain brother...
Employees at Texaco Inc. had noticed the glass ceiling for some time. But the idea only became accepted when tapes revealed that senior executives used race as a factor in determining promotions. In most cases, the existence of glass ceilings are very difficult to prove, and minority employees who brush up against the glass ceiling are not so lucky to have their fears confirmed by a tape...
...justified to punish me for the article. Although the Ad Board's decision still irks me, I am more concerned with the injustice that will be meted out by the Ad Board in the future if something is not done. Before the Ad Board is able to brush this incident under the table, we, the members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community, should call for student representation on the Ad Board...