Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acknowledged weakness, his love oftalking, makes Jewett seem all the moreaccessible. Colleagues and students alike praisehim for what seems to be a genuine interest instudents and an understanding of what their livesare like...
...PLAYS are risky business. Instead of being short and well-focused, they often end up with overwrought plots and underdeveloped characters, trying to squeeze all of life's sorrows and tragedies into 45 minutes. The bad one-acts always seem to center on two or three character who reveal their every secret dream and sin at warp speed...
...alumni seem to display somewhat more enthusiam for recruiting athletes than they do for recruiting introverted geeks (who after all appear to be the only identifiable group to vociferate sullenly towards the mental capacity or treatment of Harvard athletes when they are given a podium), we might conclude that alumni have more admiration for--and take greater pride in Harvard's athletes than they do in Harvard's introverted "strictly academic students...
Although students are not sure whether more people are actually buying VCRs, most seem to agree that renting movies is quickly becoming a sure cure for campus boredom. "It's great because when you have nothing to do, you can watch a movie," Marx says...
...some people, the difference between the person called and the answering machine doesn't seem to matter. Once, a friend called from California and left a 20-minute message, Kra says. "He rambled about the weather, classes, what he was wearing, what he was eating, what he was doing," she says, adding that not until the very end of the message did he tell her when he was coming to visit, the real reason he called...