Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mention elemental species like the Hell's Angels. After receiving degrees in physiology, biology and medicine from Oxford, Sacks headed to California in 1960 to study neurology and sample the wild life. He rode with the notorious bikers' club and lifted weights competitively. A 600-lb. hoist won him a state championship. Today he keeps in shape by swimming two hours a day. "It's like watching a porpoise," says his friend, New Yorker writer Lawrence Weschler. "He's incredibly powerful, incredibly graceful and incessant...
...seems a bit forced. Paredes is exuberent as the effervescent Virginia, though unfortunately her energy sometimes overwhelms her sense of timing and delivery. Liz Amberg and Rosalie Parker are memorable as the ill, subsequently dead Grandmother Mallard and the sexually charged, Coke-guzzling Romanian receptionist. Brett Conner deserves special mention for his hilarious performance eked out of a small role as the hick accompanying SuzyBelle to her cotillion...
Also receiving Ivy Honors was junior Steve Gerstung. Gerstung, wrestling in the 158-pound division, earned All-Ivy honorable mention by virtue of his 3-1 Ivy mark and his 16-14 record overall...
Citing two recent cases at the University of Maine, Mansfield said the leaflet makes "no mention of an accuser of inferior status bringing down a person of superior status...
...this is how it feels to be the front runner. This is what it was like for Ronald Reagan in 1980, when Bob Dole was so far back in the pack that he barely rated mention. This is what it was like for George Bush in 1988, when Dole's disaster-prone campaign amounted to little more than a speed bump on Bush's path to the White House...