Word: shaked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff. When he begs her to "chuck everything and stay," she asks him, "If I stayed, would my hair ever become golden curls, and my skin ivory, like Ronald's?" But the lure of the exotic is hard to shake. "Strange," he says, "I prefer yours. I shall never forget your hair and your eyes." They almost kiss ... when an off-camera scream shakes him out of his dream. It is from his girlfriend Joan (Frances Dade), and the societal message is as clear and shrill: white woman alerting white...
...Crimson led by just eight at halftime and couldn’t shake free over the first four minutes of the second half, as Krasna nailed a jumper to bring the Big Red back within single digits, 39-31, with 16:20 left...
...tell you that art 'must tend toward the pursuit of silence' ... Yet for all her limitations, Susan Sontag has undeniable impact. She is one of those critics who must be judged by their presence as well as their performance. However badly she writes, she will probably continue to shake up academic complacencies ... Her serious posture, too, will go on being a rebuke to slovenly new pop critics, who are often condescending to their material...
...tomboyish aspiring writer, Sutton Foster is a total delight, with gangly limbs always on the move, the comic timing of a vaudeville vet and a voice that can shake the balcony. She burst onto Broadway two seasons ago as the star of Thoroughly Modern Millie; she's even better here, a great singing comedian in the Carol Burnett mold. Maureen McGovern is a little stodgy as the mother, but the whole ensemble--including the men--meshes perfectly. If only the score by Jason Howland had a few decent tunes, Little Women might have been a real banquet. --By Richard Zoglin
Pharr expressed support for a set of FAS-wide policies to assure that top female scholars “get a fair shake in hiring and promotion in every possible...