Word: seems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cover of the current issue of Harvard Magazine. The New York Times is writing a profile of the outspoken professor, who over the years has been repeatedly vilified by students and fellow Faculty members for his views on everything from homosexuality to grade inflation. Cultural conservatism, it would seem, is suddenly en vogue at Harvard...
...conservatives, always so quick to deride the suggestion that racial minorities may still be victims of prejudice, seem ever so eager to claim that mantle for themselves. Last year, a group of conservatives held a "coming out" dinner, all but explicitly suggesting that being a conservative at Harvard was comparable to being a closeted homosexual. As one of the event's planners explained, "It's really just an event to show that there is a strong Republican community at Harvard and that no one should feel intimidated to share his or her political beliefs...
...Wizardry on a secret wizard train leaving from downtown London. Though the setting is modern, the basics of Harry's story ring familiar. Rowling's style and sense of humor resemble Roald Dahl's, and her storyline, full of clever twists and characters who are not quite what they seem to be, is at heart a simple tale of good versus evil...
...Rene Russo, his investigator/lover. The scenes of high adventure and art thievery that overwhelmed the movies trailer is largely confined to the first half-hour of the film. The rest rides on stolen glances and whispered phrases. At least on Brosnan's part, those glances and phrases all seem a bit tedious to him as an actor, not to mention those of us in the audience. Rather than showing any true interest in Russo's character, Brosnan imports a sort of James Bond indifference to everything around him, as though money could chase even the last inkling of real feeling...
...They always seem to be a challenge to us and we rose to the occasion," Weiss said...