Word: rigor
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...usually tell them that Waldorf helped bring me to Harvard, not by academic preparation—most classes were, quite frankly, laughable compared to the rigor experienced by many of my peers here—but by freeing me to explore my interests and giving me an innovative, holistic view on education. Still, I feel I should be honest with them. The social and intellectual opportunities are comparatively limited. If you’re not built for it, you may go crazy...
Fashion insiders are not famous for their critical rigor, but even in this industry, people haven't seen the kind of hyper hype that surrounds the 21-year-old Posen in a long time...
Mick Jagger’s voice is still potent after all these years, and he still can strut his way all over the stage. Richards can play guitar with the best of them, despite looking closer to rigor mortis than a rock star for some time now. The local gossip surrounding the band centered around their subdued, healthy pre-show habits instead of raging booze fests. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, the Stones, who formed when Bill Russell was helping to win the Celtics championship banners that now hang on the FleetCenter ceiling, were...
This reasoning does not even attempt to meet the necessary burden of proof. Such arguments discredit the academic rigor of this institution and signal an ominous start to President Summers’ second year...
After a few epic-size Hollywood films (Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven), director Steven Soderbergh has gone small. Full Frontal, his terrific new movie, is intimate and innovative. It boasts rules of Dogma-like rigor: the budget was $2 million; the shoot took just three weeks; most of it was photographed (by the director) on video; the stars were responsible for their own makeup; no limos or trailers were allowed. He also constructed a Chinese box of a film-within-a-film-within-a-film. The result is his liveliest experiment since the strenuously weird Schizopolis six years...