Word: maximalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...glib maxim that Floridians like to bandy is "hurricanes are the price we pay for living in paradise." But for a good part of the past couple years, paradise has begun to feel like purgatory...
...said Siraj after her performance. “This was a really good opportunity to show what I like to do.” She said she was excited at the opportunity to perform for the first time in a professional show with spotlights. Russians Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin drew thunderous applause after their performance. The duo—two-time World champions and four-time European Champions—is considered a top contender for a gold medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. Smith and Jones began work on the production in February and continued...
...guest suite.” Guest suites exist in each House to accommodate visitors and come with maid service. Other skaters will be staying with masters in Leverett, Eliot, and Lowell, and in the Winthrop, Kirkland, and Eliot guest suites. Two of the skaters, Morgan Matthews and Maxim Zavozin, will be staying in an Eliot student suite, which has been vacated for the weekend. Two other suites had previously agreed to house the skaters, but had to back out, leaving the EWC committee with something of a housing crisis. Luckily, three girls in Eliot agreed at the last minute...
There are three reasons to purchase The Pussycat Dolls’ debut album “PCD”: family ties, complacent idiocy, and the liner notes’ Maxim-esque portfolios of the band members posing suggestively...
Grand juries are in the business of handing out indictments, and their docility is infamous. A grand jury, the old maxim goes, will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it of them. But I didn't get that sense from this group of grand jurors. They somewhat reflected the demographics of the District of Columbia. The majority were African American and were disproportionately women. Most sat in black vinyl chairs with little desks in rows that were slightly elevated, as if it were a shabby classroom at a rundown college. A kindly African-American forewoman swore...