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...love interest. As Jennifer, she tries to be nice to Nicky and caring to Gino. Local viewers may find Jennifer particularly cute in the crimson Harvard sweatshirt with white lettering sold at the Coop but will gain little else from Curtis' part in the film. Curtis does not really detract from the movie, but she does not contribute much either...
...percentage ofwomen on the faculty--31 percent of head tutorsare women, while they comprise only 14 percent ofthe faculty eligible. Professor of RomanceLanguages Barbara E. Johnson says the significanceof this figure is that junior women faculty areconsciously channeled into positions that do notdirectly enhance their chances for tenure andactually detract from their amount of researchtime...
...Frank's problems with the law and morality detract in no way from the music he made. I don't have to say this, I just thought I should. People only remember the bad stuff, the fights he got into, the women he done wrong and the patronizing way he let Sammy into the Rat Pack. But what about the good? It was Frank, remember, who brought Jerry and Dean back together on Jerry's telethon a few years back. He didn't have to. He wasn't paid for it. He just...
...opposite conclusion. Reagan's motives in pushing for the treaty have been impugned by his critics, who interpret his actions as those of a man egged on by a wife solely concerned with her husband's place in the history books--as if that would in any way detract from what on the merits clearly is a sensible, long-overdue reduction in nuclear weaponry or if the judgment of history is a factor to be dismissed in the conduct of affairs of state. If anything, the virulence and mean-spiritedness of the opposition emanating from those on the President...
...testimony, D'Aubuisson mounted a counteroffensive. The thin, chain-smoking soldier turned politician rejected all suggestions that he was involved in the killing. Claiming to have been out of the country when Romero was slain, D'Aubuisson said, "Duarte is accusing me to maintain a smoke screen to detract attention from the crisis in El Salvador...