Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Compared to the actual artifacts, she says herprints are "gross." The piece does not overwhelmthe gallery but "Spots the wall, takes its turf,heightens the space, leaves the museum, butchanges...
...same time, critics last week were still denouncing Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's management of the disaster for gross incompetence, lack of preparedness and bureaucratic bungling. His government remained reluctant to take help from the outside. Offers poured in from 60 countries, the U.N. and the European Union, but Japan accepted aid from only 15 of them. Tokyo also turned down most offers of help from the U.S. military based in the country, though the American forces have tons of emergency supplies stockpiled and even offered to accommodate refugees aboard an aircraft carrier. Teams of doctors from...
...that fastidious filmmakers retreat in dismay muttering, ``Does he mean, like, bathroom jokes?'' Ignoring the advice, they end up dying out there with cute, cautious comedies like Speechless and I.Q. (not to mention spineless farces like Mixed Nuts). Meanwhile, Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. ``Gross-out grosses,'' its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D--in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde--makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire running...
...similarly denies wrong doing in connection with other allegations that have been made against him in his time at Harvard: buying votes in a Republican Club election in 1992; conflict of interest and gross violation of council rules in deciding to run the council's general election as acting vice president in the 1993; and deciding to keep for himself a large grant from the EPA that he obtained in the council's name...
...double overtime loss to Princeton, for example. The Crimson could have--and perhaps should have--won this game, but Harvard didn't play terribly. Yes, the free throw shooting was particularly gross, but the defense did a great job of holding down the Tigers. At worst, it was a subpar game, not an abomination to Dr. Naismith...