Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike the majority of readers of the swimsuit issue, Billy forgets that there are other facets of women's beings--traits like character, intelligence, humor and enthusiasm. I saw an extreme case of Billy's mind set while standing in line at Sage's. In front of me, a 300...
Elliott, the virtual personification of rumpled Englishness, gives the same endearing performance he did as the dad in A Room with a view. Unfortunately, Elliott's character dies of a heart attack 45 minutes into the picture, leaving Byrne and a mediocre, no-name cast to carry the balance.
Defense of the Realm has its moments--exciting scenes of newspaper presses and ceremonies in the linotype room, stuffy British parlors and subtle jabs at clumsy American diction--but the picture plays like a second-rate TV drama. Wrapped up in the perceived all-importance of his plot, director David...
"Having the student there in some cases will give us a sense of the student's character," said Robert Franklin, North House senior tutor.
Before the settlement ended the trial just prior to her cross-examination, Anderson was an impressive witness in her own behalf, vehemently denying she had ever been a lesbian. "I never, never in any way attempted to seduce Sylvia Plath into a homosexual relationship," she told the court in unwavering...