Word: plum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...care he had learned to give historical subjects during his student training at Cormon's academy. There are six immobile figures: one standing with her chemise hiked up as though getting ready for a medical inspection; the other five sitting in postures of frozen relaxation on the big plum-colored sofas. Madame presides in her lilac dress, like a weary priestess at a rite. The self-conscious geometry of the poses, dominated by the black angular legs of the girl in the foreground, reinforces the plush silence...
...describes. At a high school reunion, a fat and happy apparatchik sweeps up in his limo to be greeted with cold shoulders instead of warm hugs as his former classmates berate him for the oppressive privileges of the nomenklatura. Another character believes ideological purity will win him a plum diplomatic appointment. He not only forbids his wife to subscribe to a literary magazine and crosses out all suspiciously surnamed acquaintances from his address book, but also finally smashes all jars of imported food in the house, even the Bulgarian apple jam. The life of a third character is so drab...
...Cindy and Roger Plum of Coon Rapids, Minn., overstep the limits of parental sacrifice to try to save their 9-year-old daughter Alyssa? Although their efforts failed, both parents say they would do it again -- and again...
...very divided about whether or not Harvard should have an undergraduate theatre department. I don't know if undergraduates have any consistent attitude about this. Some people want a department, others don't. Some undergraduate actors believe that if there were a department, the plum roles would go to drama majors rather than to people who just want to pursue theatre in an extracurricular way. I understand that argument and sympathize with it. There are other very serious theatre people here at Harvard who want to concentrate on it and develop their skills as undergraduates, and that's understandable...
...luxurious blue and green tropical birds on its tiled walls. Lipp's has long been famous for its choucroute (a.k.a. sauerkraut), and purists argue whether it deserves its reputation. But one outsider's view is that anyone who willingly orders choucroute deserves whatever he or she gets. The Alsatian plum tarts are much better. The main attraction, though, is the beer, which comes in glasses of increasing size, starting with a demi for a half-liter, working up to a serieux and finally a distingue, a mug holding a liter...