Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Background: Harvard is best known to most of the world through glossy recruitment pamphlets, Hollywood movies featuring glossy actors portraying clean-cut and brilliant students and glossy photos of well-established, aged-yet-immaculate colonial structures. In the public eye, Harvard is free of filth. To those outside the gates, our institution is spotless. Harvard students know better...
...difficult to ascertain which outcome is most shocking. Is it (a) that the John Harvard culture had the least bacteria growth, (b) that the "control" culture from the reporter's mouth had more mould and bacteria growth than any of the other samples, or (c) that a clean-cut and well-washed Harvard student is dirtier than John Harvard...
When corporations can shirk their responsibilities, and can cut and run to the cheapest workforce, nations become desperate to retain the jobs they can, whatever the social cost. For these workers, "free trade" is anything but that. They are denied their freedoms--freedoms of speech and of association--and denied their basic human rights by the same trade that enriches the people behind...
...Morton got "the Call" from Woody Allen about a possible role, she knew enough to be excited, but not enough to be intimidated. In fact, she hadn't seen any of his movies. And though Morton is--so far--virtually unknown in the U.S., she believed that the audition cut both ways. "I have to decide whether a person is right to direct me," she explains. She knew nothing of the legendary Allen secretiveness: how, for example, he won't let actors see his scripts, just the scenes in which they appear. Morton simply had to read Sweet and Lowdown...
...life. On the other, boasting and roasting are also part of the tradition. Lately, exaggeration has ruled. It's often hard to find real experience in the cartoonish raps of many gangsta rappers. Q-Tip, on his new album, Amplified (Arista), brings back the honesty--but doesn't cut back on the fun. This is a party album about picking up chicks (Vivrant Thing), cruising the streets (Let's Ride) and dancing in clubs (Breathe & Stop). "I look at a track like a lady I'm about to get into a relationship with," says Q-Tip. "I let the music...