Word: sheerness
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...many students and their families of a great deal of pressure. Application season in elite America is a time of great suffering. Admissions porn litters the living rooms of millions of ambitious families, most of them in a state of nervous collapse. College-bound seniors exhaust saliva from the sheer fatigue of sealing envelopes, frantically competing for seats on the Great Meritocratic Conveyor Belt...
...magazine inspired by YM, CosmoGirl, and Seventeen will launch at Harvard this December. If its editors live up to their ambitions, the quarterly, entitled Freeze, will run on 64 glossy, full-color pages, rivaling only last spring’s issue of H Bomb in terms of sheer volume. Founder and president Thea L. Sebastian ’08 says Freeze will take most of its cues from the YM set, with content tweaked for a more mature audience. According to Sebastian, the first issue will include a quiz—something along the lines...
...Retirees who aren't self-employed like Utsumi can struggle to find decent work?most companies still prefer to hire younger people, because they generally cost less under Japan's rigid, seniority-based salary structure. But the sheer demand for workers is encouraging companies to be more flexible. Top temping company Adeco plans to double its number of registered workers aged 50 and older by 2008. Employment agency Pasona is forming a Japanese version of the American Association of Retired Persons?not to lobby for prescription drug plans, but to help retiree job seekers find work...
...style distinct from Rodin's. Working under the spell of Art Nouveau and Japanese prints, she produced some fascinating small exercises like The Wave, in which a near abstract surf of marble/onyx rises above three capering nudes. But the Detroit show is frank in acknowledging the timidity, repetition and sheer mediocrity of some of her late work. Yet even when she was turning out retrograde sculptural commissions for the Countess de Maigret, who served for a time as her patron, she could not help sometimes but to produce them with authority. Perseus and the Gorgon, in which...
...first my interest was voyeuristic. Allen and I read crazy quotes aloud to each other, laughing at their sheer absurdity. Allen proceeded with characteristic skepticism. But the more I read Dianetics, the less I laughed and the more I was seduced. In Hubbard’s manifesto I had expected to find the psychopathic derangement Cruise had recently taken to exhibiting, or at least a monolithic definition of the good life...