Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even though he never fit the institutional mold and eschewed gray flannels for a turtleneck sweater and medallion, Wald has left an indelible mark upon Harvard. He is at times "a pain in the neck to the administration," as one admirer says, but he is still universally respected in spite or because of his politics...
...spite of all that, Nixon concludes, "he did tell me ... to the very last, that he did not feel that he was guilty...
...writer (The Lives of a Cell), soon after he became president of Manhattan's famed Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center four years ago. Last week his sardonic words rang truer still. After five years of exhaustive studies with mice, researchers at his world-renowned institute concluded that in spite of early indications it might control the spread of tumors, the controversial drug Laetrile showed no anticancer properties. Yet even while they were strengthening the scientific case against the apricot-pit extract, also known as vitamin B17, Laetrile's supporters were predicting that the drug - now used illicitly...
...husband, is played with cruel, aristocratic brilliance by Dirk Bogard; the casting could not have been better. Ellen Burstyn, meanwhile, does not quite convince as the lawyer's wife; she's supposed to growl like a trapped domestic pet and take gleeful pleasure in taking on a lover to spite her husband, but somehow Burstyn comes on like Dinah Shore trying to play Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. The performances, however, are really peripheral to Resnais' fascination, haunting insights into fantasy, conveyed both in the movie's dialogue and in its visual composition. A chit-chat review cannot...
...spite of the drop in applications, there will be more minority members accepted this year," Thompson said...