Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense, the team can be said to have been saved by low expectations. Coming into the season, the Crimson was faced with the prospect of having to make-do with a mess of supporting players. The team had lost star forward Tyler Rullman to graduation, and his 19.5 points per game and solid, hole-plugging defense inside were not to be replaced overnight...
...dark night, a cold two-hour bus ridebrought us to an Army camp where we dressed in afrigid food-storage locker and performed in thecrowed mess hall (where the men, long deprived offemale company, seemed obsessed with stroking ourhair...
...council really is a mess. But the standard council-bashing misses an essential point. Without excusing Vice President Josh Liston '95 and his ilk, I suggest that the real villains are not those falsifying attendance records and rigging elections--the real villains are all around. They...
...meandering and cloying. As for Patrice Chereau's Queen Margot, an epic melodrama set in Huguenot times starring Adjani, it had Hollywood values galore: dark intrigue, plenty of body hacking and bodice ripping, and a budget of $25 million, France's largest ever. But the picture was a mess. That Zhang and Mikhalkov shared the second-place Grand Jury Prize was seen as the jury's amicable nod to two established directors. That Queen Margot won the thanks-for-coming Jury Prize was thought to reflect the clout of the panel's three French members...
...growing in slums like the capital's Cite Soleil and in the countryside. Fuel is too expensive, so peasants can no longer afford to transport crops into the city. In some areas, people are reduced to eating boiled green mangoes and seeds. "The military got us into this mess, and they will have to pay for it," says Pierre, a father of five. Relief agencies already feed some 900,000 people, but they claim that red tape from the U.N. and the U.S. is holding up supplies. "They keep talking about humanitarian aid, but people are still starving and black...