Word: modicums
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...even exploitation requires a modicum of creativity, and 9 1/2 Weeks is no more and no less than a massive failure of the imagination. 9 1/2 Weeks is, in fact, not about relationships at all. It is about the dark underbelly of the consumer class, a Yuppie nightmare not of domination, but of the loss of humanity...
Fortunately for many students, those courses that are worth little to Harvard departments are worth their weight in fun. Medical School Professor Robert Coles' Gen Ed 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection," has built an almost legendary reputation as an extraordinarily stimulating class requiring only a modicum of work...
Casimir, the younger brother, is a harmless buccaneer type who wants nothing more than a toreador suit. Devastatingly good looking and basically warm-hearted, he at least posesses a modicum of stability. His brother Jem, however, is a changeling--half monk, half libertine, vacillating wildly between desperate passion and asceticism. The favoured child of an impressive Mexican woman who died when he was younger and nearly dragged him with her, Jem is, to put it mildly, disturbed. Jezebel, despite being uprooted and a bit lost herself, remains probably the most sane of the trio. She spends the summer with...
...Mondale supporter, of which luckily there are some left, and you will hear fears about nuclear safety, arguments for a government that plays a positive role in the betterment of society, a return to a modicum of morality in our dealings with allies, or, from the less thoughtful, the now-hackneyed invocation of the "fairness issue...
American diplomats will commute to the new embassy from a five-story annex in East Beirut, where Christian militias maintain a modicum of security. Fifteen Marines will guard both the new embassy and the annex, but they will stay off the street and out of sight. Those precautions are prudent. Just two days before the American Marines left, a furious gun battle broke out between rival Lebanese militiamen in West Beirut. One of the two people killed was a man trying to rescue the wounded...