Word: overgrown
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...obvious, yet Harvard ignores it: outstanding teaching should be recognized as an intellectual art form rather than a practical or vocational skill. The undergraduates at this institution did not overcome rigid admission requirements and astronomical tuition fees to receive the same type of education available at their local overgrown state universities...
...that its facade features 19-ft. statues of Dopey, Sneezy & Co. posing as if they were holding up the roof. The building is "an overbearing presence on surrounding neighborhoods," declared Michael Scandiffio, a board member of a Burbank homeowners group. But some residents think they can tolerate the overgrown dwarfs. "Disney's a good neighbor," says Thomas Murphy, a retired judge. "I say, different strokes for different folks...
With his all-gums smile, flattop hairdo and exuberant, affable manner, Hall seems like an overgrown kid surveying a roomful of candy. His conversation is frank, unaffected, headlong. "When I'm on the air, I'm happy," he says, relaxing in his mirrored office on the Paramount lot, a muted TV set overhead tuned in to MTV. He is dressed in his typical off-hours duds: baseball cap, Reebok T shirt and unlaced sneakers. "I was born to do this. When I'm in the spotlight, I'm gone. I love it more than anything in the world. When everyone...
This is not intended as a call to weaken our defenses in favor of social programs, but to understand that with greater fiscal responsibility in our overgrown military budget we can begin to attack this war going on already within our own borders...
Here it is, folks: the movie that hates its own audience. In mall-town America, a modest queue forms at the local Googolplex to see a new comedy starring Tom Hanks, exemplary nice guy. This time, the overgrown kid from Big is playing Ray Peterson, an amiable businessman whose idea of an O.K. vacation is to hang around his pleasant home in numbingly normal Hinckley Hills and be lazy. Let his wife (Carrie Fisher) and son go to their lakeside cottage; he'll just veg out, watch TV and keep an eye on those . . . well, darned odd neighbors who recently...