Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...social occasion, and I was having a casual chat with a staff person from one of the lvy League sister schools (not Harvard/Radcliffe). This woman mentioned, in passing, that the presidents of these colleges held regular meetings, and, among them, the Radcliffe president was regarded as mildly ridiculous because she had the title and the salary and came to the meetings but had no responsibility for admissions, instruction, discrimination, tuition, housing, campus crises or other badges of office...
...place of Laclos's 18th century decadents, Cruel Intentions offers us a modern prep-school Lothario (Ryan Phillippe, who looks a little like Leonardo DiCaprio on mean pills) and his half-sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar, deploying her TV vampire-slaying smarts in a lesser cause). But what they do on their summer vacation (misspent in upper-crust Manhattan and Long Island) is the same old story--an elaborate scheme to deflower a couple of virgins (Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair) whose virtue irritates and challenges them. As in all the other versions of this story, they succeed, but eventually receive...
...travels through far-off lands. In Iranian films, the terrain is typically the child's own hometown. And the potential tragedy can be as simple as being left alone at school, as in Panahi's deliciously devious The Mirror. Or, as in Children of Heaven, the loss of your sister's shoes...
...death of Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29 last week offers us a unique opportunity to reflect on the state of abortion rights. Before Blackmun drafted the Supreme Court's legendary Roe v. Wade decision, women died daily, victims of botched back-alley abortions. Virtually everyone knew someone--friend, sister, daughter or mother--who had an illegal abortion. Women who were allowed to have an abortion were made to sign a psychiatrist's note saying that they were suicidal...
...highly vulnerable to predators, so any peahen with a concern for her sons' longevity should opt for a more modestly endowed mate. Trouble is, all the other peahens are fools for those huge tails and may turn up their noses at the short-tailed sons of their practical-minded sister. So, the evolutionary strings are pulling us in two directions: Go for the geek with the Microsoft stock, says Mating Program A. No, wait, says Program B, did you see that adorable rake with the earring and the black leather blazer...