Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes the script is just plain cheesy. Alderaan is depicted as a hippie commune where hunting is forbidden unless ecologically appropriate. For goodness sake, no matter what kind of a threat the Empire is, the people of Alderaan would never dream of taking up arms to defend themselves. Is it a wonder, with this PC weirdness, that Leia joined the rebel alliance? They don't do her character any favors either, but at least the script makes clear all the ambiguities between her and Luke and Han which were so baffling to me as a child...
...Bennington out of debt and into prominence, its new president has abolished tenture for all new hires, fired one-third of the faculty and forsaken plain teachers for "teacher-practitioners...
...authors make plain, there is no question colleges are engaging in "race-norming." Here at Harvard, for example, the mean Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) score for Blacks in the class of 1996 was 95 points lower than the mean SAT score for whites in the same class, according to the Consortium on Financing Higher Education...
...people who do seem most enthused about Head of the Charles are those who own businesses in Harvard Square. This past weekend, hotels were booked, restaurants had hour-long waits, and bars were just plain madhouses. But with lines outside the Crimson Sports Grille and the Spaghetti Club extending into JFK Street, it perhaps was a better idea to slouch back home, instead...
...everyone else, it means plain, good, common sense...