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...male friend of mine was puzzled by the seeming inability of women to decline dates with an immediate negative. No matter how many times I tried to convey to him the difficulties involved in turning a person down, he insisted that women give evasive answers to men for the express purpose of torturing them...
...wacky pre-teen Emma to relate her personality so other characters--parents, for instance, Gutwillig as Wesley has a harder time. Less defined to start with, his character progresses a lot further through the plot's various unbelievabilities than his sister, and he and Bernstein, excellent by themselves, rarely convey the impression of mother and son. Most of the stiffness and bad timing evaporate once Norris as Weston comes onstage; the strongest personality of the four, he not only dominates the plot but brings most of the dramatic momentum with...
...confidence in the people that govern this college. The administration does not want to cover up for harassers. It is fully aware that sexual harassment is illegal. Through its policy, it is trying to avoid unwanted publicity; to administer justice without seeking revenge. Yet it is unable to convey this to a majority of the students. There is no channel for communication; there are no student representatives on the administration...
...this explicitly in the title of an early one, The French Line, 1960. Its main element is the top of a diet-toast package torn and shaded into a shape vaguely suggestive of a liner at sea seen bow-on. Its stripes suggest deck chairs and awnings, and they convey one into the atmosphere of luxury and fine-tuned bodies that was part of the fantasy raised by the S.S. France, and first-class ocean travel in general, two decades ago. The diet wafers, the label tells us, are "the faithful friends of your ligne"-a word that means figure...
...very little policy-making and more packaging. ["In my White House job] there is very little policy-making," he says, adding that during the campaign he enjoyed an advisory role. In addition. Bush's staff is now subordinated to the President's, he says, adding. "Though I can convey my ideas to the vice president, we clearly have to accept the fact that we are number...