Word: entertainers
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...different,” Gates recalls. “The first beer party that I ever attended was as a 17-year-old and was at Harvard, at Memorial Hall. They even hired a strip tease artist to perform for us.”While Harvard provided strippers to entertain their male undergraduates in the 1950s, Harvard House Masters strictly regulated how men entertained women in the dormitories. For the Class of 1956, parietals—the hours when women were allowed in male dormitories—restricted how they interacted with the opposite sex. According to the rules, women...
...that govern our daily lives and limit our capacity to think beyond the status quo, to abandon image-consciousness in favor of making a meaningful political choice. I would never advocate remaining silent on issues of great importance, and there are certainly some opinions we are not meant to entertain, but shouldn’t we save our voices for unjust laws, not displeasing commencement speakers...
...Grease, nearly 30 years ago.) But the director - who also was screenwriter for that other hit movie musical anomaly Chicago - is counting on the marquee appeal of Foxx, Knowles and Murphy to bring audiences into the multiplex. After that, he has to trust his own craft and instincts to entertain them artfully and get a return on the $73 million budget...
...safe to say this movie isn't an easy, feel-good experience. I'm more relieved by a film that speaks truth than an entertaining film that lies to me completely. Entertainment used to mean "entertain an idea." Now it means evade your life...
...interpretation of parliamentary procedure. Haddock did not allow council members to overrule his decision, which further upset supporters of the bill. Approximately 15 council members in favor of the act left the meeting in an attempt to block any vote from taking place.Now, Haddock says that he would entertain and sustain a point of order to correct the record. Greenfield’s constitutional amendment would be struck down, and the Student Group Non-Discrimination Act could come into effect.Haddock would not say whether or not he would rule that the act has passed...