Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Beantown has sent many a talented stand-up cut-up out into the brightly lit, dimly conceived world of big-time comedy, it hasn't gotten much back in return. Top headliners don't come to town too often and homegrown prodigies such as Leno and Wright only pop in for occasional, surprise appearances at their old haunts. As a result, Boston comedy has been suffering from the excruciating boredom that inevitably results when the same young comics--those who can't break into the big time--perform at the same old clubs weekend after weekend...
...done it again--another editorial turnaround that distorts the facts. The Crimson's editorial of 17 February asks students what they've gotten in exchange for their ten-dollar term-bill fees. After recognizing a long litany of Council successes last term, including the installation of $30,000 worth of new word processors for students in the Science Center, the extension of the dinner hour by 15 minutes, a successful Yale weekend, and eight well-attended milk-and-cookie breaks (the Ad Board reforms, the several pamphlets, and a number of other measures were not mentioned) the editorial slips into...
Furthermore, land reform--which is at the heart of Aquino's strategy to deal with growing disaffection in the countryside--has not gotten off of the drawing board. Finally, the issue of the presence of American military bases remains as divisive and distracting as ever...
...attraction of the topic does not explain why writers insist on making dramatic molehills out of this political mountain (were George Bernard Shaw alive today, he might have been able to inject some new dramatic tension into the form, but in all likelihood we would have gotten another Back to Methuselah instead of a Major Barbara). What prompts people like Kopit to encroach upon the territory of nuclear arms gurus like Jonathan Schell or Joe Nye, when Kubrick beat them to the atomic punch 24 years...
...didn't mean so much at the beginning, but it's different now that we've gotten so, so close," Chiarelli said...