Word: expection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...producers have the right idea in trying to modernize the atmosphere of the movies. Even classics like From Russia With Love seem a little dated these days. No one would expect the Bond of today to be a Xerox copy of the one from 20 years ago. Licence to Kill seems to be an effort to combine the staples of the old Bond--girls and gadgets--with a modern twist, a new type of hero and a new type of enemy...
...burdens of history are balanced in the pages of Naipaul's many books and published daily on his mobile face. The muscles for consternation, annoyance, mirth, sadness, disappointment and disdain are well developed. A lifetime overcoming obscurity, asthma and anxiety among strangers in strange lands has taught him to expect the worst. His autobiographical writings toll with such gloomy remarks as "To see the possibility, the certainty, of ruin, even at the moment of creation: it was my temperament." To a visitor who has just blown through 10 1/2 time zones to arrive promptly for a meeting in Madras...
...unanimous--the men's ice hockey team, which last April brought Harvard its first NCAA championship since the golf team nabbed the crown in 1905. Minus Hobey Baker winner Lane MacDonald, Olympian Allen Bourbeau, a few other graduates and the hunger for that elusive national title, one can't expect the same from this year's squad...
...seem so at first, but after a while you'll realize that your first year at Harvard closely resembles a planned marriage. Out of the blue, you're forced to live with someone you don't know. The other person will expect you to do your share of the housework and complain loudly when you take too long in the shower...
Wilson, a University of Michigan administrator, was not even considered for the Radcliffe presidency until several candidates on the initial search list had asked not to be considered. She is a chemist by training, and some expect her to be an advocate for increasing the numbers of women in science...