Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth-grader could gaze into a crystal ball and envision the college world he or she will enter in the year 2000, it would reveal a mixture of the surprising and the familiar. Dormitories would probably have the same kinds of sagging mattresses, desks and bookshelves that have furnished collegiate rooms for generations. School pennants and posters would likely be smeared across the walls. But there might be special TV consoles -- a few colleges have them now -- that could beam up taped lectures by any professor on campus or even let students monitor courses from other schools. Built-in computer...
...American preference for big art has worked against his reputation, because his pieces are tiny. None is more than 2 ft. high, and many of the best of them are to be measured in inches. You enter Price's imagination from the wrong end of the telescope. His objects don't declare themselves across the room at you. Like certain Joseph Cornell boxes, or like the tiny clay caricature heads by Daumier that so influenced Giacometti's ideas of scale they pull you close in with their bright and almost fetishistic visual promise until you have shrunk, as it were...
...select both a university and a specific course of study, the American practice of jumping not only from department to department but also from school to school seems a luxury. Japanese students find it all but impossible to transfer credits from one school to another. Thus students who initially enter a junior college and subsequently decide to earn a bachelor's degree must head overseas...
Other students questioned the motives of those who enter interracial relationships, and complained of being labeled "exotic" or of serving as an "ethnic experience" for partners of a different race...
BOSTON--Former Massachusetts Sen. Paul E. Tsongas ended speculation yesterday that he would re-enter the race for the Democratic nomination, asking volunteers to cease their efforts on his behalf...