Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy is sound. For Barbie is that familiar archetype, the sadist whose dark impulses might have remained impotent had they not been licensed by a police bureaucracy demanding results, and no questions asked. This pathology is beyond comprehension by conventional reportage, beyond control by conventional moral opprobrium. Confronting him, the decent individual can only defend his own integrity. The painful cost of that integrity is shown by the survivors of Barbie's interrogations, the witnesses to his depredations, in the interviews that form the film's redemptive center...
...Kentucky kindergarten teachers, Mildred and Patty Hill, published Happy Birthday in 1893 as Good Morning to All and later added the familiar lyrics. The song was copyrighted in 1935 and earns $1 million a year in royalties. Japan's Casio Computer company, for instance, pays a 1 cents fee for each of the digital watches that it programs to play the tune. The song will earn royalties until 2010, when it will pass into the public domain...
Union members sang familiar tunes withcustomized lyrics, such as "McHarvard," avariation on the McDonald's television advertisingjingle, and "If We Had a Union" to the tune of "IfI Had a Hammer." A few participants brought theiryoung children along, carrying thempiggyback-style as they marched...
Nancy C. Braverman '89, projects coordinator for the William James Society, said the organization's goal is to help students "get more familiar with professors" in informal discussions, lectures, colloquia, and dinners. She added that the group is planning events that are "not exclusively for people interested in psychology," possibly including a panel on eating disorders, she said...
Harvard has lost five straight games, something no Crimson team has done since 1979, when Harvard lost six in a row. (That year, Harvard opened with a victory over Columbia--sound familiar?--and proceded to fall to the University of Massachusetts, Boston University, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton and Brown.) The '79 Crimson rallied to win its final two games over Penn and Yale...