Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that so many first-years at Harvard dye their hair? Maybe it's the urge to rebel against years of studious restraint. Or against the monotony of Harvard style, replete with J. Crew corduroys, Urban Outfitter sweaters and dirty-white Cornell Lacrosse baseball caps. Whatever it is, the Yard abounds with colorful coiffures...
Despite all this turmoil, some professors maintained a pose of restraint about the central administration, citing the Corporation's impending decision on benefits as a more appropriate indicator of the weight of the faculty's influence...
Talalay succeeds in capturing the colorful, playful nature of a comic strip. The scenes come fast and funny, and aren't bound by the conventional live-action restraint of continuity. In the course of the film, Tank Girl wears dozens of different get-ups, the work of brilliant costume designer Arianne Phillips, which are sure to inspire suburban pre-teens across the land...
...become clear what the defense strategy is. Its interest is not the investigation of racial bias, but the effective use of the race card as a gag and a restraint on public opinion no less than on public officials. The true strategy, it is now apparent, is to simply demolish public support for the prosecution by destroying the reputations of each and every individual police officer brought before the court. Breaking legal rules with a sense of impunity and seeking to humiliate public opinion into acquiescence is not a very lofty standard for the American institution of due process. Rather...
...Well, I wish to say for the record--and for what it may be worth--I have not lied to, defrauded, or mislead anyone, or otherwise committed the slightest breach of law or ethics with respect to this situation. Had The Crimson shown more courtesy, factual discipline, and professional restraint, the truth might have had a better chance to emerge. As it is, I will simply have to hope that when the entire story can be appropriately told, The Crimson will be as eager to print word of my restored good reputation as it was to report my alleged misdeeds...