Word: normale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Neither residents nor tutors can remember an Adams House without Drag Night, a seemingly eternal annual tradition, held during the normal dining hours shortly before Halloween each year...
...recruits come here with this stuffy image of Harvard and I think it's good to show them a good time," said one athletic captain who requested anonymity. "I also think it's hard to completely prohibit [underage drinking]. [Harvard] is a normal place just like any other school...
...hasn't helped Ford because, after an initial spurt, the sale of white Broncos actually declined during the first eight months of the trial. Nor did that case have a noticeable effect on the Akita dog business. The people at Hertz tell me their Simpson connection has not altered normal growth in profits and revenues one way or the other. Orange juice has enjoyed record sales, but a spokesman for the industry doubts the ex-defendant can take any credit...
...reaction crystallized the problem that Simpson, despite his acquittal, faces in trying to rehabilitate his image, resurrect his career, resume a normal life--or even tell his side of the story. Many pundits, operating on the assumption that for the rich and famous, every scandal is a career move, predicted that Simpson would, if cleared, be back on the celebrity circuit in no time. Yet Simpson has entered uncharted waters. Other stars, from Fatty Arbuckle to Michael Jackson, have been tainted by criminal charges or allegations, but none has weathered a murder trial whose every evidentiary twist and turn...
...wing of the Irish Republican Army planned to bomb it: "He had gone miles away/ For he drank like a fish." After the explosion: "How culpable was he/ That last night when he broke/ Our tribe's complicity?" The question is both wrenching and outside the parameters of normal political debate. Death and suffering cannot be countered by polemics; the best thing to be said--a fair definition of poetry--is whatever pays tribute to human complexities...