Word: paled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bizarre events of Orton's true life and death, however, pale in comparison to the plot of this fantastical play, where the line between sanity and psychosis is blotted out past all recognition. It begins with Dr. Prentice (David Waller, '00), a country-sanitarium psychiatrist who attempts to seduce his naive secretary (Kate Taylor, '01) with such subtle lines as, "Take off your stockings; I wish to see what effect your stepmother's death has had on your legs." An unexpected entrance by his nymphomaniac wife (Stephanie Smith, '98) leaves the doctor flustered and the secretary undressed. It is soon...
...Cornell's $480,000, the University of Pennsylvania's (Penn) $474,900 and Columbia's $460,000 all seem to dwarf the Harvard Undergraduate Council's Finance Committee's $126,500 outlay. Princeton's midyear budget of $26,000 and Yale's $44,000 seems to pale in comparison...
...agrees with Novelist Pearl Buck that raising a race issue is as unwise as it is ignoble. However, "yellow bastards" was not TIME's phrase but the factual report of typical angry reactions documented by correspondents all over the U.S. As for actual skin-color, U.S. white, pink or pale faces may well be proud to be fighting on the side of Chinese, Filipinos and other yellow or brown faces...
...studied architecture, and this began a lifetime's fascination with structure. His art training was, in fact, classical. His main teacher was Jean-Leon Gerome, academic par excellence, and it's not much of a stretch to suppose that the Geromes and Bouguereaus he saw, with their pale, continuously rounded flesh (tubular, in a way) and their meticulous highlights, influenced the "Tubism" of his maturing style. The manikins in his Contrast of Form paintings, such as Exit the Ballets Russes, 1914, project a strange mixture of nervousness and solidity--sexless tin men bustling about in a narrow, overcrowded space...
Observe-Adams, tables close together demanding a smaller clientele, e.g. pale VES concentrators; Kirkland, the smaller size tables and spacious layout comfortably fitting athletic teams. So as the randomization computer switches on, beware of houses where students just plain...