Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Umberto Eco's novel, The Name of the Rose, would hardly seem the stuff that a bestseller--or a box-office smash--is made of. Despite a hypnotic murder mystery and a steamy deflowering, down deep it's about a bunch of medieval monks. But this unlikely tale evolves into a fast-paced, captivating piece of cinema...
...feel housing authorities treat everyone the same. The implication is we are a bunch of racists and they are hitting us with the bigot stick," said Thomas Connelly Jr., association director...
Here's what really happened. First, a bunch of party hacks got together to solicit position papers from professors, businessmen and activists and hold fancy press conferences showcasing successful local and state Democratic initiatives. Finally this week, after their year of sound and fury, they released their report, one which foolishly seeks to recapture the electorate with this uninspiring message: let's move to the right...
...spring of 1985, a trio of students in the Kennedy School's Mid-Career program had a bright idea: ask a bunch of Harvard faculty members what books influenced their thinking and publish the results. Not much work is involved: pass around a few questionnaires; and then call a publisher eager to publish a book plugging other books. The result is this book, a rambling, pretentious mishmash of egoism and insight that is, ultimately, hard to hate...
While many would consider factory work "educational," I am living testimony to the fact that the Tolstoyan concept of the warmth and nobility of the working class doesn't always apply to its treatment of "college boys." In fact, in my case, it was a bunch of stinkweed...