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...latest instruments of female torture are contraptions with names like Wonderbra and Super-Uplift that force a woman's breasts, however small, into a harness, creating cleavage of the sort enjoyed by Dolly Parton. The maker of Super-Uplift describes its product as a feat of engineering (constructed with 46 separate components and underwires, a "gate back" for anchoring, and ridged shoulder straps to prevent the "embarrassing jellies-on-a-plate look"), but it is actually a feat of marketing. Reconvincing women that the absence of breasts holds them back is as easy as forcing hemlines up or down...
...read reason: for students' views on Harvard issues (since these aren't covered extensively in the outside press), and for entertainment purposes. These are also the goals I keep in mind when I write. I want students to actually read my editorials--no small feat for campus editorialists. I also want my readers to be entertained, provoked, or both...
...exist without the other. One can imagine a deaf composer if, as in the case of Beethoven, he spent decades absorbed in the world of pitch and melody before silence held sway. Music, after all, is first composed in the mind's ear, and it is no great feat for professionals to be able to "hear" a musical score simply by reading it. But a deaf performer? To hit all the right notes, to play in an ensemble or in front of an orchestra as the featured soloist? Surely this requires the ability not only to hear, but to hear...
...tournament MVP and Harvard went on to defeat St. Lawrence 6-3 to take home the play-off trophy. MacDonald was later acquainted with Hobey Baker in that 1989 NCAA championship season--an impressive double, but his alma mater has a defenseman who is poised to accomplish the dual feat in one year...
...still freaks you out even in a well-lit living room with the remote control safely in hand. It manages to maintain suspense from the opening scene until the end (with one notable exception)--something that no one, Hitchcock included, has been able to do before or since. This feat is accomplished by multiple layers of suspense via different plot structures, For the first half hour of the film we do not even meet Norman Bates or his mother: the plot concerns a woman, Marion Crane, who steals forty thousand dollars from her boss and hits the road...