Word: hollowing
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Rogers said that the best students who get into Brown, which has a very unstructured curriculum, and other prestigious schools end up going somewhere else. He called the reports of Brown's popularity in past several years "hollow hype...
...three week stay in the embattled country last summer, Rushdie attempts to bring reality to a controversy too often plagued by abstraction. But while his two-dimensional snapshots do not make for a convincing political argument, Rushdie does succeed in injecting a startling dose reality into the otherwise hollow debate over U.S. Central American policy...
...Soviets who are to blame. Parents still have fights with their children, only now the argument over whether Dad has pulled strings to get his daughter into a dance company has nasty overtones of political collaboration. Even the smallest details are shrewdly familiar: the bored, hollow-eyed bureaucrat who processes Devin out of prison ("You got a red-tag file . . . It's probably screwed up, most of 'em are"); a forlorn production of The Fantasticks in an underheated school auditorium; a family bickering over dinner about the squatters camping out on their farmland...
...tunnels run from Cambridge Electric Light Company on Western Avenue through the College to the Law School's Langdell Hall. One branch travels through the Weeks footbridge to the Business School. The poorly lit corridor passes through the hollow interior of the bridge and is sealed off from the main passageways by locked doors...
...against Harvard, nearly ran out of gas in the last stages of the game. With a minute left in the contest, Huskie spectators were on their feet, chanting and cheering. The sounds of "Sieve, sieve" which the Harvard band howled at N.U. goalie Bruce Racine seemed hollow...