Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this week the Faculty Council overwhelmingly approved a new concentration in Women's Studies. This proposal is no more academically viable than the proposal for White Men's Studies above, but in the entire faculty only Harvey Mansfield, to his infinite credit, opposed the motion...
...affection change from country to country. In Britain and Australia, for instance, exuberant fans often throw them bouquets of flowers; at the end of one Australian performance, Jayne Torvill spent 20 minutes crisscrossing the ice to retrieve a garden of tributes. Americans tend to show their approval through body motion as well. So it was earlier this month, as Torvill, 29, and her skating partner, Christopher Dean, 28, ended the first show of their current U.S. tour, when some 10,000 people in Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium stood, cheered and clapped until their hands were chafed. "Well, kids," said...
...must thank them for taking this heavy-handed horror story of Sartre's and making it surprisingly palatable. Embellishing the playwright's original script, Bobis and Onbargi have experimented with a mime troupe of five who periodically act out the memories of the three main characters in stylized slow motion. It's kitschy, but it works. The set, also designed by Onbargi, creates a properly sadistic and spartan backdrop. Hell's flames simply cannot compare to the three tacky couches to which the characters are relegated, and the spikes attached to the wall frames seem appropriately frightening...
Since its establishment in 1947, the Mayer Foundation has sponsored research and patient care at facilities that include the Farber Institute and the Motion Picture Country Home, California, a non-profit hospital and residential community affiliated with MGM studios...
Many bodily states and physical characteristics which are unwanted or uncomfortable can now be altered by medical means: an unattractive nose, baldness, small breasts, infertility, sexual dissatisfaction, motion sickness...