Word: dabbler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Bundles, Tewksbury plunged into extracurricular activities after coming to Radcliffe from Saugus. A dabbler in various activities, she did community service through the Phillips Brooks House Association, managed Harvard Student Agencies' ring agency and was the head of intramural sports in North House...
Miseducation is a musical education. The CD's songs range from the Jamaican patois-tinged rap of Lost Ones to the unexpected hip-hop harmonizing of Doo Wop. Hill proves herself a master of many genres, but she's no dabbler--what makes this album a wonder is how personally she takes everything. Hill's songs detail, painfully, intelligently, her problems with manipulative men, her childhood in New Jersey, her decision, as a young single mother, not to abort her baby boy. "Sometimes it's hard to really make any statements when you know that the industry caters...
...there was Suddenly, The Man with the Golden Arm, Some Came Running, Pal Joey, A Hole in the Head, The Joker Is Wild, The Manchurian Candidate. These are not the credits of a dabbler. Despite his professed approach to the craft, which was breezy to the point of gale force, he kept company with junkies for Golden Arm and hung around with cops whenever he had to play on the cool side of the law. He did his homework. He just didn't want anyone to see his notes...
Part II: Evaluating midterms and papers is the most important part of the TF's identity. Paper evaluation separates the ordinary TF from the Bad TF, the mere dabbler from the seasoned pro. Some key points to remember...
Make that Thomas Jefferson. Two Pennsylvania State University lecturers, at work on a book about Stewart, liken her influence to that of Jefferson, the Founding Father of the home-and-garden set, also a dabbler in politics. Stewart, while pleased, begs to differ. "I'm reaching more people than he," she explains...