Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the many advantages of communicating through the Web, there is one slight problem: the web is in English; Chinese people speak, write, and read Chinese...
...never really go home. Louise Woodward touched down on English soil Thursday for the first time in 15 months of au pair-hood, trial and notoriety. "I've really missed the old place a bit," Louise said at Manchester airport, with what one reporter described as "a slight U.S. twang." But it was not the same England she left, nor the same one that supported her to the hilt during last November's trial. The tabloids are beginning to turn on Louise: "First Class Child Killer," blared the front page of Thursday's London Mirror. It was a tale with...
Picasso was regarded as a boy genius, but if he had died before 1906, his 25th year, his mark on 20th century art would have been slight. The so-called Blue and Rose periods, with their wistful etiolated figures of beggars and circus folk, are not, despite their great popularity, much more than pendants to late 19th century Symbolism. It was the experience of modernity that created his modernism, and that happened in Paris. There, mass production and reproduction had come to the forefront of ordinary life: newspapers, printed labels, the overlay of posters on walls--the dizzily intense public...
...tenure rates for junior faculty are improving. According to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles' annual letter to the Faculty the tenure rate for junior faculty last year was 15 to 20 percent. This represents a slight increased chance in promotion...
...been placed on the AP NationalPlayer of the Year ballot and had not earnedFirst, Second or Third-Team honors. HonorableMention was darn good for an Ivy Leaguer, but manyconsidered it a slight...