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...Former frump SUSAN BOYLE gets last laugh: her album is most preordered in Amazon.com history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...little wary” of Sexton, who came to the workshop in high heels, with pancake makeup on her face and flowers in her hair. And according to Kumin, the wariness was mutual: “She [Sexton] said ‘Maxine Kumin was the frump of frumps...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Say It in Flowers | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

Brown Head Delegate Sarah G. Saxton-Frump, a sophomore, praised Cornell and Harvard’s student funding processes. “Specifically, Harvard and Cornell’s finance systems seem to be very effective. This year, I also sit on our finance board and we are writing our by-laws so I am bringing home ideas that I can use from our break-out sessions,” Saxton-Frump said...

Author: By Megan C. Harney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ivy Council Holds First Meeting | 11/10/2004 | See Source »

...National Tuition Endowment Act, proposed and circulated over the summer by Columbia students, aims to convince Congress to allocate more financial aid for higher education, said Saxton-Frump. Discussion of the act was tabled until all member schools have had more time to consider it, said Mannapperuma...

Author: By Megan C. Harney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ivy Council Holds First Meeting | 11/10/2004 | See Source »

...complemented by an imaginative set, which suggests the salons and bedrooms of upperclass chateaux. The period costumes are similarly impressive, and fashion reveals much about the social situation of the characters in the play. At one point, La Marquise de Mertueil remarks that La Presidente de Tourvel is a frump, with her "bodice up to her ears in case you might catch a glimpse of a square inch of flesh." The tense music and occasional operatic singing that bridges the scenes is also a nice touch, and prevents the pauses between scenes from becoming awkward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Complex and Witty 'Liaisons' at the Agassiz | 11/7/1996 | See Source »

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