Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present, all but 7 percent of the alumnaewho responded to the Radcliffe poll now workoutside their homes at least part of the time, and68 percent work full-time...
...WHAT DOES THE Dean of the College do?" might have asked present Dean L. Fred Jewett '57 during one of his briefing sessions with former Dean John Fox '59. "Oh, not much," Fox probably responded, "just go to a bunch of home hockey and basketball games--that way you can stay in touch with the students...
...ridiculous results, rocketing the intellectually and morally supple so far into the social and professional stratosphere that is proves not only that life is unfair, it's unreasonable. The concentration of careerist power in this place is so heavy that in certain key seminars you feel like you're present at Louis XIVth's toilet, a court jester competing for the Great One's favor...
...known to readers of the movie ads as Cobra. A man of few grunts (and no beeps at all), he is a member of the Los Angeles police departmentment "zombie squad," which means that his specialty is wasting homicidal psychopaths without much ado about Fifth Amendment rights. In the present instance they are coming at him in serried ranks, all members of what seems to be a satanic religious cult, whose chief form of worship is serial killing. Ultimately their evil energy is focused on a model, played by Brigitte Nielsen (Mrs. Stallone in private life), who is the only...
...days numbered. This death sentence concentrates her mind wonderfully. She first thinks, naturally, of herself, "a sick woman in her middle years, betrayed by one man, abandoned by another." But as she retreats from the hospital into her aerie of an apartment overlooking Central Park, Margaret moves beyond present distress toward memories of the people who have helped to make her what she has become: a successful, solitary, dying woman...