Word: doormate
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...first 2:03 of yesterday's Harvard-Cornell contest belonged to the cellar-dwelling, doormat-selling Big Red squad, then the next 47:57 belonged to the four-time defending Ivy champion Crimson club...
Columbia should take over the Bulldogs' position as the official doormat of the Ivy League this year, but the fact remains that Yale probably lacks the talent to win very many games...
MacLaine's style on-screen has always been bold, even overreaching. When she played a pathetic yet appealing doormat in Some Came Running, the role that first earned her an Oscar nomination, in 1958,* TIME called the performance "brilliant overacting." The same could be said of her Aurora, a woman whose funniest line-"Why should I be happy about being a grandmother?"-is screeched at the pitch and volume of a train whistle. Yet the performance is subtly detailed. In a romantic scene with Nicholson, for example, MacLaine softly taps her chest with her balled hand. The gesture signals...
...step on the doormat and it opens automatically. And then here's just vast quanties of food so much of the same thing--one whole aisle of pet food and an aisle of cereal and I hate it," Eck says. Contrasting the "gluttony of consumerism" in America with India's ecological ethic that comes in part from a country where resources are scarce...
...fact, although Penn may have the reputation for being "the doormat of the Ivies" and a "safety school," a recent student survey showed that more than 60 percent of the undergraduate population selected Penn as their first choice school. Students continue to wear the popular "NOT PENN STATE" shirts--a reference to public misunderstanding of Penn's Ivy League status, and of the fact that Penn is different from the similarly named football power--but it has become more of a joke than a serious concern...