Word: crafting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...English Department, I listened to the professor pose a question to her students. It was one of those questions that seemed to beg for the flexing we've all become so accustomed to watching. I expected that, in response, a student would pose as the model of Harvardness and craft a tangentially relevant reply around a series of allusions and suggestions geared at strutting his or her intellectual feathers. In this class however, the professor was met by the unimaginable--silence first, and then the apprehensive raising of a hand or two. Was there no one here who felt that...
...Army "laser weapon" that was being used to shoot down UFOs missed an alien craft and "locked on" to the airliner instead...
...several years), and one look at that distinctive Fosse style--bodies that slither and strut, every hunched shoulder or cocked head a seductive come-on--is a reminder of a whole lost vocabulary of Broadway dance. John Kander and Fred Ebb's score is a model of its craft. No detachable love ballads here, just a stream of tuneful, witty numbers that make their point, engage the ear and evoke an era without sounding like mere pastiche...
While many students simply try to inflate existing credentials, others join organizations and acquire titles in order to craft a favorable image of themselves...
...here to help you craft a piece of paper," says career counselor Nancy Saunders. "Any counselor would [tell a dishonest student], that the path you are following will catch up with you someday...