Word: frequentative
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...hither advances seem too good to be true to the passive Charlie, and her femme fatality is a constant mystery of the film. “She’s almost an aesthetic creation…not a real person or a type,” says Nielsen. Another frequent companion of Charlie’s is Pete Van Heuten (Oliver Platt), the film’s resident comic relief. Though Pete has a tendency to harm more than he helps (as in a scene where a drunk misogynistic rant leads to his being hauled into the street), it?...
...Minority women in male-saturated professions like technology report frequent instances of subtle discrimination. "Microinequities" is what Allwood calls the small slights and blithe biases that alienate women like her: the inside jokes, the averted eyes, the overlooked suggestions. "They're the very small things that can make a person feel included or excluded in the work environment," she says. She retaliated by overcompensating, taking on ever bigger tasks, traveling, working day and night, until she ran the company's worldwide systems programs. Today she tries to change the equation by working on a program to introduce underprivileged girls...
...past several years. I listen to the arguments about the injustice in supporting clubs that perpetuate privilege to the detriment of the 90 percent of unwelcome Harvard students, and I agree—even when a friend accuses me of causing male cronyism in financial institutions because I frequent final clubs (yes, me alone). For the fourth time in my Harvard career, I’m watching as my male friends go through the clubs’ vicious processes, and for the fourth time, I’m disgusted. I watch their self-esteem ebb and flow on the vacillating...
...spurious tip that local constables frequent a certain table at Harvard’s newly 24/7 Au Bon Pain, FM rises at the ungodly hour of 6:40 a.m. on a Friday morning to investigate...
...minutes you are: Logging and capturing video footage from my summer in Martha’s Vineyard and talking to my Mommy. In 15 years you are: Directing films, owning my restaurant, encouraging my children to be good people and enjoy life, attending hockey games regularly, making frequent trips to my beach house, white-water rafting for pleasure, going on lots of roller coasters, and going to weekly plays/concerts/movies...