Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mary Pickford's understudy in a play titled A Good Little Devil; by eleven she had written a play of her own; and at 16 she had run away from home to work in a factory making paper favors. When her mother remarried, she began to enjoy her first taste of society and was soon zestfully embracing all the paradoxes of getting ahead as a woman: at 18 she was working for the feminist cause, including distributing pamphlets urging women to "make themselves heard," while just two years later she was accepting a convenient marriage to George Tuttle Brokaw...
...limiting the guests who help create some of Harvard's few memorable parties the University makes it difficulat for students here to enjoy themselves. And the University shouldn...
...away with the grand prize of a week's vacation for two at a resort in Corsica. "His recipe can win in the finals," says Daniel Hubert, the executive chef at the Hotel Sofitel, the site of the national competition. "The way he made it is the way they enjoy it in France...
...happy," he says with a grin. "That's why I make so many films. This is a most beautiful thing, to be with 60, 70 people on a set and to make stories. It helps me to act. I work seriously but never take myself seriously. I want to enjoy myself -- really enjoy -- like a child. Because all actors are children. If it is a limit that an actor is still a child, it is also a miracle. And when the film is finished, I am looking for another film. Otherwise my life is a little more bored...
...released last fall by the Carnegie Foundation found that "even the brightest women students often remain silent" in mixed classes. "Not only do men talk more, but what they say often carries more weight." By contrast, at women's colleges, notes Wellesley President Nannerl Keohane, female students not only enjoy "equal * opportunity, but every opportunity." This pays off, she insists, when graduates go out into the real and frequently sexist world: "When they do hit their first mound of prejudice, instead of saying, 'I'm not ready for this,' they will say, 'I know I can do this...