Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...article of mine to which Adair is professing to respond has a very simple thesis: I don't care about what goes on in the bedrooms of my fellow students. I write, "I am not at all curious about what you do in your bedroom[s]." In another instance I respond to statements by BGLTSA co-chair Andre K. Sulmers '98, "Only a small number of people on campus are concerned about the sex life of Andre Sulmers." I further explain, "Most of Harvard doesn't care if you are [homosexual]." I wonder how much more clearly this point could...
...anticipated that the world might be, well, curious about her case, she was right. Infertility rates in industrialized countries have been rising for three decades, mostly as a result of women delaying childbirth. From 1988 to 1995 alone, the number of American women of childbearing age who suffered from fertility problems jumped from 4.9 million to 6.1 million, a 25% increase. Any breakthrough that could do something about this trend would be big news indeed...
...about the Persian Gulf War, he tells me, and right away I become terribly curious to know what kind of film he's come up with. But he warns that because of his responsibilities at UMass and the Archive, it will probably be some time before it gets finished. Even when it is done, he observes, it's not likely to show up at the Sony Harvard Square. And while he doesn't mention it, we both know that after it makes its way around the festival circuit, chances are it won't show up anywhere...
...explain his cause and the need for people to sign the petition. But it is all in vain. She pays no attention to his moving lips, her gaze instead locked on his Aqua Velva blue eyes. She breaks her stare only long enough to yell, "Watch the store!"--a curious request since she's the only employee on duty...
...history lesson, Umabatha is straightforward and brings out the parallels quite successfully. When viewed as an adaptation of Shakespeare, however, the play starts to look like a rather curious beast, and one isn't sure exactly what to make of it. Umabatha sticks fairly close to the main points of Shakespeare's text, retaining its great scenes and its characters, but, of course, those characters and the story itself undergo a process of transformation into a Zulu context...