Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...private vote that concluded the monthly faculty meeting last night, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passed a motion to dismiss a graduate student, according to Secretary of the Faculty John...
...before you dismiss last week's happenings as just another routine massacre at Hemenway Gym, read...
...reaction to it even before every character and musical note had been freighted with childhood memories. I thought to myself, What makes this movie, and its 20-year anniversary Special Edition re-release, so special? To claim that it is not (as a recent Boston Phoenix review did) and dismiss it as simply the first blockbuster, the movie that invented mass-marketing tie-ins and single-movie industry, is to belittle its power. Unlike the many hyped-up media gimmicks that have followed it, this movie never asked anyone to fall in love with it, as dozens of movies...
...publisher of Hustler magazine, certainly has not forgotten Keating either. In the 1970s and early '80s, Keating became an antismut crusader, attacking Flynt and winning an appointment from Richard Nixon to an antipornography commission. Flynt told TIME, "The Keatings of this world are the real perverts. You can't dismiss him as someone who just wanted to take people's money; he's one of the most dangerous men in America because he is completely intolerant of others and believes he is always right...
...they are just this year's leading symbol of the unabashed capitalism that plagues every American December. One company is surely much richer for producing the toy that turned parents into larger, more insistent versions of the whining children for whom they were buying the dolls. I can even dismiss my curmudgeonly opinion that dolls shouldn't talk, giggle or move on their own--that human imagination should be more important than technical ingenuity--in the face of the techno-addicted, video-game-actuated children that make Power Rangers and Elmo forces to be reckoned with...