Word: gees
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Inside Edge Publisher Aaron Shapiro '94 says misogyny charges arise because students here tend toward a kind of ideological trigger-happiness. "People look at the cover and they say, 'gee, a magazine for men, it must be bad--and then they don't actually read...
This is also a real, one-ring circus, with acrobats, a juggler, a high-wire tiptoer. And no animal acts; that would be redundant, given all the exhibitions of gazelle grace and leonine strength. Le Cirque evokes the three best responses from a circus audience: "Gee, that clown's funny!" (when Rene Bazinet, a talking mime, gets caught in a bathroom that becomes an aquarium); "Hey, the human body can't do that!" (when one man climbs a Chinese pole on sheer wrist power or descends using only his thighs); and "Ooooh, that's beautiful!" (when four aerialists...
...then, awkwardly and unexpectedly, with Rothenberg's gee-gees leading the field, figures started recolonizing the bare stage. Partly they did so in response to performance art, which had absorbed the body images that abstraction had driven out of painting. (Trained as a dancer, Rothenberg tried performance herself in the early '70s.) Partly it was just out of inarticulate need -- the need to reconnect with the world, through self-description that didn't exclude pathos. Auping is certainly right in seeing the horses as disguised self-portraits, or at any rate as "presences" that stood in for human presence...
Many times, these letters find "duplicates of the scene at Harvard," he says. "People say 'gosh, gee, I don't know any qualified minority applicants in that field...
...promises to be a difficult sell. Clinton, it is true, may be overstressing the sacrifice it will require -- possibly deliberately, in hopes of inspiring a gee-that-wasn't-really-so-bad sigh of relief. Still, he will be raising taxes on the middle class, rather than delivering the tax cut he promised during the campaign, and at least nicking the hide of that most sacred cow, Social Security. Though polls do show that people are worried about the deficit and want it reduced, it seems questionable whether many citizens could identify the ways in which an untamed deficit might...