Word: effective
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...first-years will lose the choice of where to live. Third, North Campus is less accessible to many attractions--including shops, bars, restaurants and most fraternities--that West Campus residents liked being near. The principal reasons behind opposition to the plan, though, is that it will have a devastating effect on housing for upperclass students. Displaced from North Campus, upperclass students will be forced to move off campus (imagine the effect on apartment prices) or to West Campus. But West Campus, with its paucity of study and kitchen facilities and predominantly double-occupancy rooms, does not appeal to upperclass students...
...moment when she shot her husband Zachary. Taylor's Babe is mousy and quirky, perfectly genteel if false in her most controlled moments and hauntingly lucid in her moments of insanity. She makes the tale of shooting her husband sound as normal as going to the grocery--an effect which makes it only more disturbing, and more realistic. Babe's obsession with suicide makes her seem only marginally sane, yet the profound truths she uncovers in her wildest fits reveal her as the play's wisest character, a trait that Taylor might have glossed over had she not so thoroughly...
...student, but to anyone who has ever spenttime in a home kitchen. That the set has runningwater is in itself a technical triumph--a touch,however, that was not flaunted, but put in placeto avoid distraction. Afternoon turned into duskinto night into dawn with subtle but cruciallighting and sound effects. The talent andimagination of the people behind the scenes--theset designers, set dressers, costume designers,sound and light directors--were stretched as farand as creatively as they are for any of theMainstage's more bombastic productions, but to thetriumphant effect of authenticity and reality...
...were leading lights from the New York Times and thestreet.com, counterbalanced by a mutual fund guru and a Yale economist. Everyone agreed on the easy part: Business news has never been better business. But there was fear in the air -- even the most bearish press coverage has had little effect on the individual investor's buy-now-and-hold-forever ethos that has fed the current seven-year bull market. Everybody listens, but no one ever sells. Which poses the big questions: If and when a crash starts, what should the press say? Which analysts -- pessimists or optimists -- should they...
...known Jerry Seinfeld for 24 years, since they were students at Queens College, said the plaintiff's lawyer Jonathan Fisher. Much of the obnoxious sitcom character accurately reflects Costanza, but much does not, according to the lawyer. "George is a jerk," Fisher said. "This has had a negative effect on [the real Costanza's] life...