Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When she arrived at Radcliffe, Horner says she was faced with an academic situation in which "women had to prove everything that there was." She noticed, she says, "when people recommend men they talk about 'potential' and the 'rough diamond.' When they present women to get a similar position, they have to be 100 times better...
...just drive around. Quartzsite is not the only winter oasis that attracts such migrants. According to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association, some half a million Americans go south each winter in motor homes, most to established cities in Florida, Texas and Arizona. Quartzsite is for those who prefer to rough...
Drawing mattered a great deal to Jones, more, probably, than it had to any English architect before him. He was not content to direct work with rough perspective sketches and leave details to the inherited skills of artisans. He had collected some 250 sheets by his paragon, Palladio. From these he learned the conventions of drawing to a fixed scale, combining them with a fluent pen- and-wash technique to give a truthful, not just impressionistic, account of the future building. One sees his formidable skill as both a technical and a pictorial draftsman growing right through the show. "Altro...
...been a rough day for Valerie the Valley Girl (Geena Davis), manicurist at the Curl Up and Dye hair salon. Her icky beau Dr. Ted (Charles Rocket) hasn't made love -- to her, anyway -- in two weeks! "At the rate we're having sex," she pouts becomingly, "we may as well be married already." She has discovered Ted in a compromising costume with another woman and responded by trashing their condo: microwaving his football, toasting his funny cigarettes in the VCR, dropping his gold watch in the Disposall. And now, she notes, "there's a giant blow-dryer...
Golfing's increasing popularity, however, may drive it into the rough. "I see a trend toward people without sufficient education about the game of golf who have little respect for it or for other people on the course," says Dean Lind, the golf pro who operates the municipal course in Wilmette, Ill. Result: the average time required to play an 18-hole course often shoots up from less than four hours to five hours or more. Other players do not seem to understand that golfing is meant to get them away from the office. "There is nothing as disturbing...