Word: murrayism
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...youth, Scarlett’s parents took a big strip of sandpaper and ground that voice from a perfect diamond down into a rough-cut masterpiece. It’s seduced the on-screen likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Firth, and the seemingly unseduceable Bill Murray. She uses it again in her latest film, “Match Point,” to charm the fidelity off of a married Irish tennis star. Sure, Scarlett has her other exquisite qualities (bee-stung lips, right-cheek mole, and curves that she describes as her “leading ladies?...
...about 12 minutes late. I faced the world—and my early morning Life Sciences 1a lecture—only reluctantly on that cold December morning. As I set foot in the lecture hall, stale coffee in hand, I saw Herschel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics Andrew W. Murray taking a stand against the chronic tardiness of students like me. I was surprised; while an unsettlingly high proportion of students arrive late (if at all) to their early morning classes, most professors grin and bear it. But not Prof. Murray...
...initial reaction to Murray’s new policy was disappointment, because I knew that I would never be able to make it to class in time to win the lottery. But then it occurred to me: Prof. Murray just cheapened the value of his lectures...
...professors do not want to feel like they are lecturing into a void, they will naturally feel compelled to counteract their students’ idleness by offering incentives to get to class on time or instating penalties for skipping it. From this perspective, it is hard to blame Murray for bribing his students; instead, he rather looks like the victim...
...father who pulled my sisters and I onto the dance-floor as soon as “Mac the Knife” began to play, by my party-loving mother who taught us each how to fox-trot at an early age, or by my grandparents, Kathryn and Arthur Murray, who spawned a generation of jitter-bugging, tango-lovin’ dancers during the Depression. The Murrays built a successful franchise of teaching studios and later brought ballroom to the masses through television, erasing the class signifiers that had accompanied certain dance steps. At the beginning of their program, immediately...