Word: figs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kirsch was a great guy, and his tip about how the fig doesn't really justify the newton was helpful. I'm not against the idea of employing such courtiers, but when I get rich, I'm thinking more like erotic dancer, personal chef and even a poet, just so I can make fun of how lame poetry is and force him to wear a hat with bells and a codpiece...
...surrounding its dissolution into the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study proves Radcliffe's tremendous success in prying Harvard open for women: the mission as accomplished in 1977, when Radcliffe delegated all responsibility for educating undergraduate women to Harvard. Since then, its status as an independent college has been a fig-leaf. What is a college to do after all its students attend another? What is Indigo Montoya to do after he avenges his father' death in The Princess Bride...
...TELEVISION Boston Marathon, Ch. 5 and 7, 9 a.m. Devil Rays at Red Sox, Ch. 56, 11 a.m. world Champ. (fig. skating), ESPN, 8 p.m. WCW Monday Nitro Live!, TNT 8 p.m. Pacers at Celtics...
...Americans would sink like a stone. It's one thing to have an abstract notion that he actually had an affair and covered it up (and to have that leak from Starr's grand jury). It's another to hear it from his own mouth, to have the fig leaf of doubt removed and be forced to confront our own moral laxity in being willing to overlook...
...historian and chairman of the Duke University history department, has been outspokenly skeptical of Glenn's mission, questioning its scientific value and dismissing it as a trivial or even foolish use of NASA's scarce resources. If critics like Roland are right, the mission's science is merely a fig leaf. If it's a fig leaf, what is it covering? "This space flight is the same as the first one," says John Pike, director of space policy for the Federation of American Scientists. "It had everything to do with making the country feel good. It's about the right...