Word: conned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stepmother just called to say she'll be coming up for Freshman Parents' Weekend. She's a great woman--she pays for school, books, trips, con traceptives, the phone bill, and my car. But she has a drinking problem, and I don't want to see her drink alone. I heard that she can give me drinks in my room because it's in loco parentis, but there's a problem...
...America, the work attracted widespread attention, both pro and con, but it ran up a deficit of $100,000; to pay off his share, Glass went back to driving a cab. The experience was worth the price. "The main thing about Einstein is that it put me on the world theater map," he says. "After that I could work in the theater -- not at will, but something close...
...offices around it; they complained that it prevented their crossing or even using the space. In March the regional administrator of the GSA, William J. Diamond, convened a public hearing to gather opinions (both expert and lay) on Tilted Arc. Some 180 people spoke, two-thirds pro, one- third con. Last month a GSA-appointed panel recommended, based on the hearing, that the sculpture be removed, but the final decision will be made in Washington by GSA Acting Administrator Dwight Ink. The piece's public unpopularity is not shared, or at least not publicly echoed, in the art world, where...
...title role, Burt Reynolds has somehow mislaid that cheeky brightness that is the basis of his stardom. His performance is so muted it is sometimes hard to hear his lines, and he has directed the film in the same torpid spirit. This story of an ex-con whose moral code imposes on him a mission of revenge among the drug traffickers around Miami is lazy, dull and told in imagery as murky as its underlying morality...
Taubes' most significant contribution has been "understand differential equations that have been important in topology," said Professor of Mathematical Physics Arthur M. Jaffe, who taught Taubes and then co-authored a book with him "It turns out that these equations have important con- senuences for geometry...