Word: rides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certain standardized test. I took a cab down Mass. Ave. to get there, a trip which didn't help me much in figuring out the city. I had been lamenting my lack of zest for exploration to my mother on the phone the night before, and the cab ride solidified in my mind how embarrassed I was not to have gotten to know the city after all these years. My mother, though, in her wisdom, had suggested I try to combat this problem by stopping by the Kennedy library and museum after the test, which was right on the campus...
Women scorned, women afraid of being scorned--and some curious men along for the ride--are helping The First Wives Club break records. Its $18.9 million opening weekend was the highest ever for a so-called women's film and captured more than one-third of the movie-going market from competition such as Bruce Willis' Last Man Standing. The characters played by Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler are like the Furies crossed with the Three Stooges--college friends spurned by their husbands in middle age who plan a madcap payback. But for all the one-liners...
Sixty years ago, no one needed hope; the screens teemed with movies about women. Strong women, saintly or desperate ones, but always smart. Greta Garbo drove men to their doom; Barbara Stanwyck did the same and went along for the ride. Carole Lombard traded quips and punches with her co-stars. Rosalind Russell ran giant corporations from her perch as executive secretary to some very soft plutocrats. Katharine Hepburn, a cool goddess, came to earth to cuddle with Spencer Tracy. Bette Davis strutted her sensationally neurotic hauteur. Joan Crawford played the unapologetic gold digger, which is how she leveled half...
Theories abound on why the numbers have increased so abruptly. It seems to be a combination of two factors the graduation of many seniors who did not ride the shuttle as a matter of ride and the randomization of hundreds of sophomores into the Quad. Having been banished to the north by Harvard, these sophomores likely feel it is their right and privilege to take full advantage of Harvard's resources, not least of which are the shuttle buses...
...dwindling of reefs in the world's oceans, scientists acknowledge, will not immediately destroy the organisms that build them. Many corals spawn en masse, releasing a vast pinkish slick of fertilized eggs that ride ocean currents for hundreds of miles. In the natural cycle, one reef rises as another declines. This cycle is what humans are now disrupting, however, and no one can foresee what the consequences will be. Creating more marine preserves can help, but even if the reefs are patrolled by armed guards, they may not be able to withstand the twin juggernauts of exploding population...