Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough, she once was a supermodel) by taking goofy roles--she's usually a clumsy, awkward underdog. In Thomas Crown, she leads with her sexuality, and the chemistry she ignites with Brosnan is beyond electric. And the plot of the caper isn't so shabby either; even though we expect stud and vamp to unite in the end, there's enough twists and turns to cloud the possibility. I have no doubt that they'll remake this film again in five years, so here is my recipe for another blockbuster. Keep Brosnan and Russo, add Sharon Stone as a potential...
...civilians, and it was something you didn't expect," she says. "We were all happy and excited that this [flight] was happening...
...knowledge there has been no talk of change in our policy," said Thomas Masse, a Yale admissions officer. "Last year our yield was the highest in our history, and we don't expect that to change...
appreciation course," he says. "This is not a practical, pre-professional course, and we are not going to expect the students to master complicated mathematical techniques any more than you'd expect the students in a music appreciation course to learn to write a symphony...
...this sense, the word "integration"--thrown around by the College and House Masters as emblematic of a healthy House community--is both vague and misleading. To expect students to abandon their self-created social circles for the companionship of several hundred random residents is both silly and simple-minded. Social circles of varying sizes are an inevitable part of House and campus life. Eliminate them in the form of blocking and they will merely recreate themselves after subsequent rounds of the yarn game...