Word: prettier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard (“1,000 economics majors—that’s scary”); women in science (“The more the better, as long as they don’t outnumber us”); genetic engineering (“Would I make people prettier? Yes”); and Sandel (“I just wish we could enhance him”). He advised students interested in science to avoid pursuing a science career simply “to be a worker.” “Don’t go into it unless...
...vacant property isn't much to look at now, and it certainly wasn't any prettier back in the late 1960s, when a 1952 Comet was parked on the front lawn, tins of bacon grease filled up the kitchen, cigar smoke stunk up the air, and newspapers littered the floors. But the little bungalow at 5124 De Longpre Avenue in East Hollywood was the epicenter of a cultural earthquake that continues to rock Los Angeles's literary landscape. It is the house where Charles Bukowski went from blue-collar postman to full-time writer, eventually becoming world famous...
...movies, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has become the industry's hottest festival ticket by acting as a kind of supportive, low-maintenance girlfriend. Unlike its major festival sisters - that sexy cougar Cannes, 60, and parka-clad hipster Sundance, 29 - Toronto, 32, is inclusive, friendly and even prettier once you get to know...
...film's real interest is in the iconographic pairing of the lovers. Argento is one of those severe, strong-featured women who exhales the toxic sexuality of a vixen painted by Goya. Aattou is a luscious, full-lipped, smooth-bodied satyr who could be Argento's prettier, more feminine twin. No wonder Ryno can't shake off Vellini's spell - she is his more volcanic, dominant half. The film may be more seductive than it is plausible, and it's not Breillat's most engaging work (that would be Fat Girl and its funnier remake, Sex Is Comedy). But this...
...construction site is a bit prettier than the building,” he said...