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...theory was born out of the teachings of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). Though he wasn't a grape grower or even a gardener, Steiner set forth guidelines for farming timed to the season as well as the zodiac. Close to homeopathy, biodynamics is hyper-organic stuff. The technique includes eight different steps, using materials from cow dung to chamomile flowers, and is difficult to learn without someone like Armenier coaching. The vineyard worker must watch the calendar and the sun and moonrise for the precise times to add various supplements to the soil...
...where I felt I had to be sexier, to lose weight or that I was supposed to get on the cover of such-and-such magazine." As King puts it: "Forty-year-old doctor? Great. Forty-year-old professor? Great. Forty-year-old TV star? Dinosaur." So Valerie's hyper-self-consciousness--she's constantly signaling "time out" to the cameras during uncomfortable moments--is like an animal's defense reflex. Her image is her life. The reality crew manipulates too: the producer makes her repeat a line, suggesting, "I just think your reality could be a little more excited...
...same time, a bureaucracy of sometimes comically hyper-specialized functionaries has developed. Harvard’s administration now boasts deanlets, assistant provosts, senior associate provosts and divisional deans. The Crimson reported Monday that Harvard is creating two vice provost jobs and a senior vice provost position to cover international affairs, research policy, and faculty development and diversity. With Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 in place as the College’s super-dean, University Hall has also expanded with a cornucopia of new “deanlet” positions—the College...
...Harvard Pageant nomination process and the 2000 presidential election have at least three things in common: competition between hyper-inflated egos, general apathy from the majority of the population, and the apparent losers demanding a recount...
...with no handicaps," he says defiantly. "Al1 the drinking I didn't do, all the smoking I didn't do, that was my own dedication. [He has been less circumspect around women and has also shown more than an academic interest in horses.] I've had broken toes and hyper-extended elbows, but the only time I didn't play was when I couldn't walk out there. You know, I don't ever catch cold in the summertime. You can't catch cold in the summertime...