Word: gross
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Harlan's system of defense makes her aparticularly difficult character with whom torelate, a certain familiar tenacity keeps herengaging and believably human in spite of somerather gross exaggerations in personality. Thoughthe detail and prose style of The Healingalso verge on exaggeration, the flamboyancy andcontemporenaity of the work is amusing in the sameway a reading of Entertainment Magazinemight be. Though the presence of such figures asPaul Simon will certainly (and perhapsintentionally) attach an expiration date to thisnovel, Jones' knack for characterization and herstrong thematic motivation seem to promise anotherwork along the same lines, but with a greatersubtlety of design...
Steven A. Gross, a tutor in Mather House, said he was walking behind the students, who were dressed in tuxedos, when he saw them push two women, walking in the opposite direction, off the sidewalk...
...Gross said that as he passed them he said, "Hey guys, that's really not necessary...
...which point one of them pushed me off the sidewalk," Gross said. One of the students started to lunge at Gross, but another held him back. The students also verbally threatened him, Gross said...
...appreciate the fashion statement made by wearing disgusting, dilapidated baseball hats, Auden C. Velasquez '01 defends his favorite one, saying, "This hat is a part of me! But all the girls in my entryway say I need to get rid of it because it's so gross and crustified. I've had it for three years though, and I can't let it go. Women just do not understand...