Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SENTENCED. JOHN DU PONT, 58, deranged chemical heir who killed an Olympic wrestler last year in a fit of paranoia; to 13 to 30 years in state custody, to be spent in prison or a mental hospital; in Media...
Plainness ran deeper than taste. It sometimes grew out of religious conviction--formal severity was built into the Puritan creed, for instance. But it also sprang from the social necessities of American life: the need to make and mend things for oneself, to fit and adapt to local materials. And it acquired a political dimension as metaphor...
...which seem to be natural candidates for the History A Core requirement. These classes, which provide a considerable breadth of knowledge as well as a solid introduction to the methods of historical study, were turned down for the most peevish of reasons: They didn't precisely fit the description of the Core divisions Historical Studies A or B. This leads us to believe that the Core administrators, rather than fostering a "broad education," are more interested in their own parochial program...
Rick Murdock says he did not mean to put pressure on his employees, but his life hung in the balance. At 49, the deceptively tanned and fit executive had just received the kind of diagnosis that is a hypochondriac's nightmare: a rare case of advanced mantle-cell lymphoma. Doctors told him the average life expectancy for the disease was 30 months, and indeed, his initial round of conventional chemotherapy was unsuccessful. But in a coincidence that was both ironic and edifying, CellPro scientists were experimenting with a new way to boost the success rate of the very operation recommended...
...absence, or to strengthen the suggestive power of his unseen presence; whatever the reason, it certainly gave one pause. Laura's glass collection did not occupy the central position one might expect, being placed on stage right and partially obscured by the sofa. When Tom, in a fit of anger, hurled his coast at his mother, instead of knocking over the glass ornaments (as in the original script), it hit Laura herself. Perhaps the director was making a conscious decision to avoid too heavy-handed and obvious a use of the symbolism, but it is worth remembering that the glass...