Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lose sight of its importance. It takes the essential plot elements of the novel and blurs them together to create two hours of incoherent nonsense. In short, director Alan Rudolph's vision of Vonnegut's cynical tale boasts all the clarity of a disturbingly silly dream, conceived in a fit of misdirected illumination...
...players and coaches say this focus on the social sciences is partly a product of these concentrations' flexibility--with no long lab sessions, they fit easily into a schedule packed with practices...
...rate encyclopedia, suspiciously slim volumes that I would ransack for sixth-grade book report roughage, featured an innovative learning tool under the entry on the Human Body: seven consecutive pages of transparencies, each devoted to a different organic system. Page 1's skin'n'hair'n'nails fit neatly over Page 2's spindly circulation road map which in turn lay on Page 3's inexplicably adipose-yellow GI tracts or Halloween skeleton man, and so on. At a glance, you saw and saw through man instantly, as through, yes, X-ray specs, a three-dimensional simultaneity of vision...
McNamara urged students to be on the lookout for the perpetrator, who she said "seems to fit in" with students. She said they should approach unfamiliar visitors and ask if they need help. Students should call HUPD if they are still suspicious, she said...
...trying to win your business. Politics, at least, goes away for a couple of years. No chance the phone companies will rest. They've got way too much explaining to do--like why phone bills take hours to decipher, why customers aren't automatically switched to plans that best fit their calling patterns, why long-distance carriers shift you back and forth without your consent and why it can cost more to call the next county than the next state...