Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest venture, Disney is orchestrating its usual mix of hoopla and down-home family fun. Euro Disneyland will feature an amusement park with 29 attractions, and six hotels with 5,200 rooms designed by such top architects as Michael Graves and Robert A.M. Stern. There will also be a 138-acre Davy Crockett campground and an 18-hole golf course, not to mention 150,000 trees sprinkled over the Disneyscape. Construction is more than halfway along. Among the park's highlights: a 60-ft.-high Swiss Family Tree House and Disney's trademark Big Thunder Mountain, a roller-coaster ride...
...will undoubtedly be as big a draw in the lecture hall as he is in the box office. The department should make sure that its new visiting lecturer has the chance to mix with the student body during his brief stay here. It should encourage Lee to teach a large- to medium-sized lecture course, rather than a small class limited to only a few students...
...book, Some People, Places and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel, Cheever made a list of subjects he considered off limits. Some seemed frivolous: "All parts for Marlon Brando." Others contained a mix of irony and rue. The author would shy away from explicit scenes of sexual commerce: "How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives as if -- jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts -- we were describing the changing of a flat tire?" He would disdain alcoholics: "Out they go, male and female, all the lushes; they throw so little true light...
...rate of just 44%, but that is partly because state taxes help cover the cost of buildings, heat and other overhead expenses connected with research. Taxpayers still pay the bulk of the bill, just as they do at Stanford; there are simply more state tax dollars in the mix than at a private school. Rates are typically lower at public institutions anyway. Unlike Cornell or M.I.T., these schools have little incentive to comb federal guidelines for every allowable expense since, in some states, most of the overhead recovered from the government goes into state coffers, not the universities...
Most actresses gave outstanding performances. Salie played Sandy with the right mix of innocence and feistiness, avoiding annoying cuteness. Heather Thompson, as Betty Rizzo, was another standout, her sweet voice countering an abrasive character. Thompson carries the one serious scene in the play with convincing emotion, showing that her character is more than a wisecracking teenager. Also noteworthy were Frenchy (Jen Bell), a beautician run amok; the always hungry Jan (Susan Gray) and irritating cheerleader Patty Simcox (Tina...