Word: neatness
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...teacher's neat casual suits or carefully parted white hair fool you. Students say Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies Tomas O Cathasaigh teaches the myths with energy and wit worthy of the Celtic heroes themselves...
...serious plan but about who had a better one. Polls continued to show that a large majority of voters hated the G.O.P. Medicare proposals and thought they were designed mainly to make room for lavish tax cuts for rich Republican allies. This put Clinton in a neat position. If Gingrich and Senate majority leader Robert Dole accepted his terms, he could take credit for balancing the budget without shredding the safety net. If they rejected it, he could campaign for the rest of the year against a party that hates old people, children and breathable...
...interiors raise the obsessive cleanliness of Dutch domestic culture to the level of abstraction--no wonder his great Dutch successor, Mondrian, loved him, for that and other reasons. Vermeer's jonkers and juffers (dandies and damsels) are so neat, dressy and full of decorum that you can hardly compare them to the rowdier figures elsewhere in 17th century Dutch art, coming on with wineglasses and making gestures of sexual insinuation. Vermeer's are seldom marked by experience, and except for maids and servants, they all belong to the same stratum--a class, needless to say, rather above his. Does this...
...never had second thoughts," Hill said. "The neat part about coming here is that me and the other guys on the team, we have the feeling that we can start something new here at Harvard...
...himself from falling in love (with Amy Brenneman's innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent his most valuable henchman and his wife (Val Kilmer and Ashley Judd) from marital misbehavior that threatens his enterprise. He can't, in general, prevent blighted human nature from scribbling all over his neat blueprints. This leaves him vulnerable to a policeman--nice irony here--who is more accepting of the world's anarchy than...