Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Radcliffe Presidents Neil L. Rudenstine and Linda S. Wilson received glowing profiles in the Boston Globe. This year, there was a bit more balance in a Globe article on Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, but as indicated by the headline ("Harvard's Skip Gates; guru, griot, gaditty), there was plenty of room for sucking...
Topping off all these assets is a startling capacity to commit herself to the fullest. Stevenson had to skip the show's final preview at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum after being rushed to a doctor with back spasms that rendered her unable to stand up. Yet on opening night, she made her first exit the way she always had, unhesitatingly hurtling herself across the stage, up a flight of stairs and almost colliding with a wall. Pain be damned, the play's the thing...
...example, Mao decided to skip the intermediate stages of "socialist construction" and go right to full communism. He called it the Great Leap Forward. It would take a million David Koreshes to kill the number of Chinese who perished (through famine, forced labor and civil unrest) to satisfy that lunge for the millennium. Two decades later, the Khmer Rouge murdered more than a million of their countrymen in an attempt, explained Khieu Samphan, to "reach total communism with one leap forward." Has any religious vision occasioned more human sacrifice than "total communism...
...However, Skip Sneeringer's Galahad Lasnight personifies the stereotype of foppish, self-inflated Harvard straight male. Intoxicated by himself and with his chinhigh in the air, Mr. Sneeringer achieves a remarkable jibe at the Old Boy Network His coxcombic and self invested flatness provide a nice backdrop for the men in heels to strut their stuff. It just goes to support some things I've always suspected: that men in heels tend to be far more interesting than men in boots, and that men in boots can be as plastic as men in heels. Frankly men in boots become quite...
...Vietnam veteran who serves as unofficial mayor and peace enforcer in Camp Hell. He contends that workers get ripped off by trailer parks (typical charge: $800 a month for a 1950s-era trailer) and hotels ($55 a day for a room without TV or hot water). Contractors regularly skip out on them, leaving them without...