Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard students are sadly mistaken if they think the literature faculty currently in their thirties and forties are the best America has to offer. Not one was chosen strictly for scholarly accomplishment. Not one came to Harvard through honest means. They are without exception products of the cliquish conference circuit, a crassly commercial phenomenon that arose in the Seventies, as a result of the recession. Their work, under its hip varnish, is shoddy and shallow...
...They made a complete circuit around the dining hall making random and weird noises," she said...
Still, nowhere in the 17 1/2 hours of testimony provided for investigators by Gillooly on Jan. 26 and 27 and released last week by Oregon's Multnomah County circuit court did he give evidence that independently corroborated his charge that Harding gave the go-ahead for the assault on Kerrigan. Despite Gillooly's guilty plea to one count of racketeering in exchange for a recommended two-year prison sentence and a $100,000 fine, his statements alone offered no firm basis to indict Harding in the pre-assault conspiracy...
...degree to which Paglia's own posturings have been highly marketable and even more highly lucrative. Presenting herself as, variously, the ultimate outsider; the last remaining "authentic" voice of feminism; a battle-weary warrior for truth, justice, and the 'merican way, poor, poor Professor Paglia hits the lecture circuit, appears on talk show after talk show and yaps, yaps, yaps, about how she has been denied her "rightful" place at the academic table because she dares to speak the unpopular "truth." Yet the uncomfortable truth for Paglia is that her traveling one-woman show resembles noting so much...
...Scene were joined onstage with Edwards for a couple of songs, harking back to the days when Edwards and The Scene recorded several popular albums together, but Edwards really shone during his own set. He remains as enigmatic a performer as anyone on the folk circuit today, and since his quirky humor is not captured on his albums, local Edwards fans eagerly anticipate his shows for a chance to catch his act. The older crowd at Saunders loved his attempts at self-depracating slapstick--Edward's got the biggest laughs of the night when he parodied the music his children...