Word: offing
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New early action policies at some selective colleges may have contributed to dramatic changes in the numbers of early applications and acceptances, admissions officers said yesterday.
For some colleges that are sending out letters to early applicants this week, the percentage of acceptances has dropped significantly from previous years.
To be sure, there is something a little quixotic about following up a picture on war-ravaged 1940's Tuscany with one on jazz-happy 1950's Rome. But I'm delighted that Minghella is so insistent upon bringing us Italy in ravishing color. A spoonful of Italian sugar makes...
The film evokes late '50s psychodrama with more precision than it has any right to. The music alone, a collection of some of the coolest cool-cat classics of the period, captures that legendary moment when you were more likely to spot Chet Baker in a Naples jazz club than...
While the number of applicants to Harvard, Brown and MIT surged, the number of students accepted did not change much, resulting in a lower early admittance percentage.