Word: stiffs
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There is a new dining option on campus for those who relish a stiff Martini and hot hors d’oeuvres in the afternoon—but entry for most comes only with a membership fee of at least...
...fully account for him. His figures may be elongated in the Mannerist style, but the swanning courtiers in Pontormo or Parmigianino, most of them as slender as greyhounds, are nothing like El Greco's rough-cut saints, famished men with skin the color of split timber and stiff robes draped around them like crumpled fenders. And while the Mannerist palette, all that coy bump and grind of pink and yellow, is calculated sometimes to startle, the explosive oddity of El Greco is something else altogether. In his magnificent late canvas The Adoration of the Shepherds, the yellows and crimson, acid...
...These people are all very well read and knowledgeable, so I’m sure the competition will be pretty stiff. But I’m very glad to have just made it this far,” said Rice University contestant Joshua Perkins...
...Yale course, ranked among the top 100 courses in the nation by Golf Magazine, should certainly provide a stiff enough test for Harvard’s golfers...
...reasons George W. Bush chose to fight it. The highest-ranking U.S. general in Iraq, Ricardo Sanchez, last week admitted that the Iraqi guerrillas were growing more effective and predicted even more lethal attacks in the near future. Bush has not helped matters with his continuing spew of stiff-necked platitudes, but he has been resolute, so far, about American postwar responsibilities. "We have a moral responsibility to leave Iraq better than we found it,? a high-ranking Administration official told me last week. Morals often take a backseat to practicalities in the heat of an election, though...