Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to say that I was sorry to see Harvard get home ice and miss a trip to another medium-sized Midwestern city...
...something is missing. Why should I, as a man, change my attitudes? How can I? Vanessa Williams was a sex object before the Penthouse pictures were published, even before she entered the Miss America pageant, at least to the men who passed her on the street. Art is objectification; looking is objectification. We categorize and stereotype all the time. It's the way the mind works...
...Triangle Institute, a respected North Carolina business-sponsored research organization, drug abuse cost the U.S. economy $60 billion in 1983, or nearly 30% more than the $47 billion estimated for 1980. Other studies have found that employees who use drugs are far less productive than their co-workers and miss ten or more times as many workdays. Drug abusers are three times as likely as nonusers to injure themselves or someone else. Moreover, addicts with expensive habits are much more likely to steal cash from a company safe, products from a warehouse or equipment from a factory...
Scandalous! Miss Honeychurch likes to play Beethoven on the pianoforte. This is not a composer with whom respectable young Edwardian women are supposed to become emotionally involved. And indeed, playing him makes her feel "peevish," or perhaps guilty at allowing this expression of her passionate inner nature to burst...
...Forster's A Room with a View is like A Passage to India in miniature. But in his later novel, the sexual hysteria loosed in Miss Quested by her visit to an exotic land results in major melodrama. Lucy's milder--and curable --case of the same malaise creates only a delightful Wildean farce. At least that's all it does in this movie version of Forster's minor and diverting novel. The formality of James Ivory's style suits this spirit admirably, counterpointing and controlling the theatrical overplaying he encourages among his players. Maggie Smith as Lucy's dithering...