Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...James D. Seymour, a senior research fellow at Columbia University's East Asian Institute, has been among those lauding Liu's move to the Apple Daily and protesting the Nieman decision...
...been a valiant fighter for pressfreedom in Hong Kong," Seymour wrote in an e-mailmessage. "He changed jobs from a small, ratherelitist newspaper (Hong Kong Economic Times) toHong Kong's number two (in circulation) newspaper,the only really independent daily left...
M.I.T. professor Seymour Papert, creator of the Logo computer language, worked with Piaget in Geneva
...tales from this televised traveling carnival of collectibles, where folks have their cherished trinkets and ancestral hand-me-downs professionally appraised, are legendary. There's Claire Wiegand-Beckmann, the retired New Jersey schoolteacher whose beloved wooden table, bought for $25 in 1965, turned out to be a John Seymour masterpiece that eventually fetched close to $500,000 at a Sotheby's auction. Or the Houston man who learned that although his oil painting of the Titanic, purchased in England decades ago, was worthless, the menu pasted on the back was an original from a last meal on the ship, worth...
...heart, Ellis is a moral satirist torn by his attraction to what he criticizes. There are scenes which are nothing more than masturbatory lists of famous names--"Brooke Shields; John Stamos, Stephanie Seymour, Jenny Shimuzu [sic]". And so many brand names make an appearance, from Alaia to Prada to Yohji Yamamoto, you'd think he had a product placement contract. It seems to be Ellis' convenient shorthand for character sketches. When Victor undergoes a transformation to a law student, we know he is different because he now wears a Brooks Brothers suit and drinks Diet Coke. London and Paris become...