Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leigh Anderson is getting rid of her cash. She uses a bank-issued debit card to buy everything from groceries and gasoline to stamps at the post office. "I used to keep spare change for coffee, but the 7-Eleven just started accepting the card," says the 33-year-old education consultant. She shuns checks too, having signed up for a new computer service called ScanFone that lets her pay her credit-card, utility and 17 other bills in just 10 minutes by tapping a few numbers on the keypad of a high-tech telephone that sends instructions...
...opinion of Dr. Leigh Hafrey, co-master of Mather House, is any indication, such universal access could be a long time coming. While Hafrey says he would be happy to consider greater access in the future, he remains concerned about safety...
After the weekend series, Harvard's pitching is thin. Coach Leigh Hogan '76 has not named his starters, but they will come out of a group that includes junior Jamie Irving (2-3, 5.23 ERA), junior Tim Vanech (1-2,3.77 ERA), junior Ben Allen (2-0, 3.68 ERA), and freshmen Sean Goldstein...
...Brazil"-esque mythicized urban landscape with the austerity of Orwell's 1984 completes the pretensions of a grand satire on corporate America. But somewhere along the way, the Coens run out of jabs at Wall Street and turn instead to punning silver screen sappy romance. Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who once talked fast and moved like a journalists with a mission, is reduced to pathetic dependence on the love of Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins), the idiot and CEO proxy she is sent to investigate...
...fight songs, to wanting him for his off-the-cuff stereotypes of 1950's career girls. That stupid remarks just happen to encapsulate her real character is funny for a moment, but no one wants her to be undone by it. Tragically, for the audience as well as for Leigh, Archer never reacquires her edge or her interest. She ends up a poster pin-up waiting for her man to show some courage while cheers him on from backstage. The transformation is sudden, never mind unconvincing, and affected for no better reason that she was seriously in danger of stealing...