Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...member of the Faculty has been appointed Allston Burr Senior Tutor for each of the eight [House]...[and] relieved of one-half of his normal teaching load," reads the President's report from the 1952-53 academic year, when the position was created...
Wait! What can I be thinking? The Republicans are decent, moral folk. They represent Americans who have been continually maligned--no, not the poor or the disabled, but the middle class. The Gingrich troops speak for the middle class, the hard-working "normal Americans" who are often taken for granted by Washington's bureaucrats and special interest groups. They protect the continued prosperity of the middle class. They guarantee that the American dream remains alive...
...still improving. What makes McBride so enjoyable to hear is his combination of ludicrous technical skills with a style that is thoroughly grounded in a traditional jazz feel. On "Ornithology," a challenging Charlie Parker tune. McBride played faster, louder, cleaner and more lyrically than Redman. It is not normal for a bass-player to manhandle a saxophonist playing bebop, but McBride is the Bird of the Bass...
This film, in Hebrew with English subtitles, shocks us with its unmasking of this particular family. Through the eyes of Rachel, the only ostensibly "normal" individual in the film, we see are shown a group of tragic individuals--a blind, abusive father, a deadbeat son--in addition to the superstitious mother and disturbed older daughter already mentioned. Sh'chur is a harsh criticism of immigrant culture and the tragic characters we are shown help us empathize with Rachel's desire to escape...
Unfortunately, O.J. has taken a slightly different route. In the month since his release, he has treated his freedom as casually as he treated the life of Nicole, and he seems to believe that if he goes through the motions of resuming a normal lifestyle again, the public will forget the trial and the crime...