Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Upstairs, a small, plain annex will be built onto the back of the hall where the shuttle bus now stops. The annex is necessary for food preparation and deliveries, planners...
Romano insists his opening paragraphs were simply a gambit to make plain the distinction between representations of an act and the act itself. As his review continues, he decides against the rape -- "People simply won't understand" -- but goes on to posit an imaginary reviewer, named Dworkin Hentoff, who likewise decides to rape MacKinnon, with the difference that he follows through. Both Romano and Hentoff are arrested for rape. But wait, Romano protests in his cell, I didn't do it. I just imagined it. Isn't there a difference...
...costs as much as a bottle of Perrier-Jouet brut, many wine lovers will consider the new (third) edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide (Simon & Schuster; $40) an indispensable purchase. The nation's pre-eminent guru of grape, Robert M. Parker Jr., is writer-publisher of a plain-as-plonk (no ads, no pictures) bimonthly newsletter, The Wine Advocate. His trenchant opinions, as well as his still debated ratings of wine on a 100- point scale, are recycled into columns for the Prodigy computer network and Wine Enthusiast and Food & Wine magazines. They also feed his awesomely detailed...
...main attraction of fusion is the potentially limitless fuel supply. The ideal fuel is not plain hydrogen but the formula used last week: a mixture of deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen that have extra neutrons in their nuclei. Even though they're rarer than ordinary hydrogen, scientists estimate that enough of these two isotopes could be extracted from the top 2 in. of water in Lake Erie to match the energy in all the world's oil reserves...
...that decision open to question. However, the real problem is the characterization of the Christmas tree as "secular." The tree that is in the dining hall of Winthrop House is not a "holiday tree" or a "winter tree" or even a "secret elf tree." It is a Christmas tree, plain and simple. The particular image that the tree inspires for non-Christians is not a secular, American one--but a picture of the Christmas holiday that is most emphatically not resonant to a range of students on campus. Many students at Harvard--Jewish students, Muslim students, and others--have never...