Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then the critic comes, and brushes him off as a dull stiff. "That asshole!" you think, "It's so unfair--he improved so much!" True, but the critic doesn't know this, nor, for that matter, does anyone in the audience. In a realistic, careful appraisal, those things are very hard to incorporate. When dealing with a professional company a critic can impose a universal standard: with a college production he is expected to be flexible. Sometimes it's impossible...
...will grant the plan is harsh, since the penalty for getting caught is stiff. But jail time is a small sacrifice for a bona-fide women's center. When released on probation, we will return to Harvard to use the women's center. In the worst scenario, martyrdom will only make us stronger...
Webster endorses new legislation that would try to find a careful resolution. He has already met stiff resistance from the Missouri legislature and has a hard fight ahead to change the laws. He proposes that families of patients who have been continuously unconscious for three or more years could petition for withdrawing treatment, including food and water. If they were unanimous that this is what the patient would want, and three independent physicians certified that the coma was irreversible, the patient would be allowed...
According to Co-Captain Ken Johnson, the Crimson had one of its best showings of the season against stiff competition...
Despite the overall squad's difficulties, the men's team was not without its own individual stars this weekend in the stiff Heps competition. Junior John Brzezenski's mammoth toss of 60-ft, 1-in in the 35-Ib. weight was good enough for third place and the provisional NCAA standards...