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Word: plainness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love life so interesting that she felt the need to misrepresent and ridicule it in print. Ms. Lezama has never met me, but she nonetheless feels qualified to lecture not simply about long-distance relationships in general, but about mine in particular, which I found inappropriate and just plain tacky. If she had bothered to ask me, she would have learned that I agree that "mad passion" deals poorly with issues of everyday life, which is why the famous lovers she mentions--such as Romeo and Juliet--came to such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lezama's Article Inappropriate | 4/26/1995 | See Source »

What motivates college students to go to law school? Money? Prestige? Or could it be that they're just plain interested in the American legal system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Students Like Career, Not Money | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...incredibly over the top. Now it's about how can we express ourselves and still maintain a certain amount of dignity." Michael Kors, who presented a sleek, sophisticated collection in New York City last week, expresses the fashion industry's new sensitivity to the marketplace: "The plain fact is that it doesn't matter how great it looks on Helena Christiansen. If no one buys what I'm designing, then I really didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW TOUCH OF CLASS | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...John McCain (R-Ariz.), a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, today said the U.S. should establish fulldiplomatic relations with Hanoithis year. McCain, who spent six years in North Vietnamese prisons, made the statement in Hanoi after watching Vietnamese officials hand over to the U.S. military 10 plain wooden boxes holding what are believed to be the remains of American M.I.A.s. Though Vietnam veterans groups still favor a go-slow approach,TIME senior writer Bruce Nelansays McCain's moral authority will probably lend the Clinton Administration credibility inshepherding U.S. investment efforts in Vietnam, which already total $525 million since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EX-POW SENATOR URGES VIETNAM OPENING | 4/11/1995 | See Source »

Often headlines they aren't quite right, and sometimes they are just plain wrong. To prevent this, all Crimson editors can do is be more careful and diligent...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Reader Representative | 4/7/1995 | See Source »

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