Word: otto
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Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles and Otto Solbrig, Bussey professor of biology, recently won accolades for their achievements in science...
...loved and much published diary. The discovery of five previously unknown pages of Anne's writings, which are reportedly "very critical" of her parents' relationship, nevertheless sent shock waves through the publishing world. The pages are being held by a former employee of the Anne Frank Foundation, who says OTTO FRANK, the only member of the family to survive the death camps, gave them to him for safekeeping. Once retrieved, the pages will be included in the next edition...
...DIED. OTTO BETTMANN, 94, excavator extraordinaire of the photographic past who obsessively amassed some 5 million images in the archive that bore his name; in Boca Raton, Fla. A curator of rare books, Bettmann fled to New York from Nazi Germany, carrying with him two steamer trunks filled with thousands of rolls of exposed 35-mm film, the seeds of his fabled collection. The Bettmann Archive has belonged to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates since...
...questionable level of sobriety, got behind the wheel. "I will finally end up on the front page of The Crimson," I remember thinking to myself, "as one of those tragic stories where a student dies in a freak accident during spring break." Luckily the guy, who reminded me of Otto from "The Simpsons," was not the bus driver...
...pretty people having fun doing rotten things to one another! Old money screwing no money and vice versa. Takes you back to the snazzy sex melodramas of the '50s (Ross Hunter and Otto Preminger, by way of Grace Metalious). Alas, nostalgia ain't what it used to be. The Stephen Peters script is twisty but vacant of character, and John McNaughton's direction is coarse, slapdash, without the saving spark of low art or high camp. If Wild Things deserves a kind word, it would be another adjective that has long been in mothballs. Remember "lurid...