Word: demanding
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...Gilesfumbles in the ways of technology and pop-culture.He mistakes microwaves for VCRs and marvels at acordless telephone. Despite these pleasantadditions of humor, the film still recedes into asort of sameness that saps our enthusiasm. Itdoesn't help that Ronnie Bostock is not nearly asinteresting and seductive as Giles' preoccupationshould demand. Priestley plays his roleadequately, but he doesn't exactly ooze superhumansexuality or personality. In short, Ronnie is notmuch more absorbing than the dumb roles he playsin the movies and on television. Ronnie evennaively asks Giles, "Are you saying, that ifShakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing thingslike Hotpants College...
With chants of, : Thirty years and nothing's changed now it's time to rearrange!" the march Bowles Plaza to Brookings Hall commemorated the 30th anniversary of ABS at Washington University and renewed the original demand made by participants in a nine-day occupation of Brookings Hall...
...idea of mass media is supposed to mean energy and innovation to twenty-somethings; it means cable and satellite television, programming on demand and the wonderful horizons of the boundless Internet. Amidst such an array of choices, then, radio can sometimes seem like the forgotten province of bombastic talk show hosts and mindless drivel (e.g.Kiss...
...have any "early" program at all? There has been a dramatic increase in demand for early programs by many of the nation's and the world's best students. This demand has been in evidence since Harvard's Early Action Program began in the 1970s and has accelerated over the past decade. More top students are ready to apply to college earlier, having developed their academic and extracurricular talents more intensively than students of previous generations. While there are some students who profit from a more leisurely pace and begin to realize their potential only during the college years...
...increasing interest on the part of the news media, has made students, their families and their counselors better informed than ever before. Without an "early" program, Harvard and Radcliffe would lose by default many of the best students to other institutions that are able to capitalize on the national demand for early programs...