Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time she is enrolled at an Episcopal boarding school in Tacoma, and it is not sex but education that engages her most passionate interests. She realizes that her classmates are pleasant, well-to-do girls whose sights are set on making an appropriate marriage: "Our school could not maintain an elite status socially while offering anything like a serious education." But a few dedicated teachers prep the ambitious girl, and she gets her wish. She is admitted to Vassar. McCarthy writes, "I prefer being a Puget Sound type that had gone east to college, as could happen, though rarely...
Comedy of Errors isn't exactly highbrow theater, and the Quincy House crew is wise not to treat it as such. But it is a lot of fun, a pleasant and entertaining hour-and-a-half spent with the Bard. Happy Birthday, Bill...
...pleasant surprise for the club has been the addition of varsity athletes from other sports. Three Harvard football players have joined the team, and all saw action over the weekend...
...used, even for ice or brushing teeth, but most hotels supply unlimited quantities of boiled water, hot and cold. With food, the best choices are bottled mineral waters and the excellent, clean-tasting Chinese beer, both preferable to the flowery local wines. And jasmine or chrysanthemum teas are more pleasant than the ordinary rough green and black teas...
...relationship that develops between Frankie and Ulysses, her robot dreamboat, is pleasant but conventionally screwball. This seems rather dismaying, considering that Director Seidelman showed such a fresh eye and so much wayward comic originality in 1985's Desperately Seeking Susan...