Word: gross
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's James at his most self-righteous, assaulting what he sees as gross stupidity in the game James's strength, beyond his consistently sharp writing, is an uncanny ability to share a fresh perspective on a game so often smothered with cliches and not-so-true truisms...
...ever done. We are devoting the entire program to one devastating series of films, a homegrown product that had to be exported to France before it gained its deserved recognition in this country. I'm speaking of course of the recent rerelease of all 13 parts of that American Gross-Out Gothic, Friday the Thirteenth...
Perhaps the motion is less of falling than of unfolding; the action is a controlled and graceful spreading of the hands. It is this gesture of disclosure that renders so irrelevant the particulars of time and place. To call this "Caribbean fiction" is only a gross restriction, an amputation and disfigurement of what is central: the mythical contours of the landscape, the pretences who inhabit it in the sublimated forms of colors, shapes, and sounds. Here it is a displacement by evaluation: "They come and go, walking on the damp ground in straw shoes. Their feet in the straw shoes...
...program. That worked out to a staggering $46 million surcharge on average for each of the 18 boats. The company contended that costs ballooned primarily because of design changes imposed by the Navy. But Veliotis says that most of the changes were requested by the company and that gross mismanagement was the real culprit. When he took over Electric Boat in 1977, he found the shipyard to be plagued by poor supervision, sluggish productivity and chronic absenteeism...
...OTHER hand, judging from some of the responses say critical article has received from Duluthian, they aren't above gross generalizations about East Coast insensitivity. They like to assume that all of the here at Harvard are born-and-bred snobs--just as they assume that we all live on Beacon Hill and prepped at Andover and Exeter. The rest of the country acts as if it has somehow risen to a higher spiritual ground by moving out to the country. I doubt that the clean air makes them morally pure...