Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joseph Cardinal Bernardin sits in his fourth-floor office at the Chicago archdiocese two days after a suit against him alleging sexual abuse has been withdrawn. He has got calls from the Pope and the First Lady on his red phone, the only dash of color in the severely plain room. He turns away from his marble conference table to point at the window he looked out on the day before the suit was filed last November. He remembers seeing a few reporters huddled below near the canopy of the Barclay hotel, peering up at his office. Every time...
...again, off-again cultural critic, has not been seen within the idyllic confines of The Harvard Crimson for some time now. Rumors as to Seth's mysterious whereabouts abounded: some were terrifying, like the one that had Seth vacationing with Kurt Cobain in Europe. Some were just plain ugly. Imagine the things we heard! Why, one speculator guessed that Seth was pimping under an assumed name in Morocco. In any case, FM had just about given up on ever hearing from Seth again when we received this memo, brought in late last night by a strange, hairy...
...cents that we pay for a first-class stamp entitles us to more than a colorful picture of pre-Quaalude Elvis. As citizens of the fruited plain, we deserve to have our mail delivered promptly, not to be penalized simply because we are in college...
That's just plain wrong, and the people who run Harvard know...
This ridiculous claim, is, to quote the staff, "just plain wrong...