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...techies," as they refer to themselves, have been working together since last spring, when Adomanis and a group of friends designed the set for the fairy tale musical, Into the Woods...
...phrase equivalent to "jungle fever" exists to describe Jewish feelings about intermarriage. There are plenty of Yiddish words that refer a bit wryly to so-called "gentiles", but there is no such thing as "shtetl fever". (The shtetl is the Jewish, Eastern European "hood...
With the debut of Cliffs Notes, students across America found that they could forgo last-minute wading through painfully thick tomes at the expense of health and sanity. Instead, they could refer to an appealingly slender, ever-so-friendly booklet brimming with handy plot summaries, character sketches, and salient themes which would have been lost on a harried student dashing through the real thing. Suddenly, writing papers became a breeze--and moral questions arose as to the appropriateness of the Notes...
Although the letter does not refer to anybreak-ins, it says "in the interest of safety andsecurity...
...little in the mass-produced world of broadcast TV. Who can honestly tell the difference between a CBS show and an NBC show or one that happens to appear on ABC? Only Fox, the scrappy fourth network, has established a brand-name distinctiveness. The network's executives like to refer to it as the "Fox edge" or the "Fox attitude." It encompasses everything from the brassy bad taste of Married with Children to the tabloid grittiness of Cops. Fox has been willing to take chances on ideas too dumb to believe (Woops!, a sitcom about the survivors of nuclear holocaust...