Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more and more of their North Faces, scarves are staying on all through lecture and toasty winter hats are being recklessly pulled over glued-to-the-head baseball caps. First-years, though, have quickly discovered the age-old freshman weapon for combatting the Cambridge cold. With the aid of stir-fry from HDS, grease from Tommy's and stale beer from that party in Pennypacker, dozens of first-years are already well ahead of pace to safely reach the "Freshman 15" mark by Thanksgiving, and have that extra layer of body-fat for the blistery winter months...
What follows would shame the gods, if any were paying attention. Here's the mother, back in the U.S., in old age: "Now that every turn in the weather whistles an ache through my bones, I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass." The memories, eloquently relived and regretted, are of grotesque cultural arrogance, unraveling in a very small place. Rumblings of the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium--and U.S. plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver...
...important to stir up dialogue aboutpersonal responsibility," Weinshenker said. "Whatbetter way to stir up dialogue than discussingthis at a national university...
Though this week's council meeting was ruled by unanimity, a resolution docketed for next week may stir up controversy...
...YOUNG AND THE AGELESS Any actress who can get away with trimming 13 years off her age without undergoing plastic surgery is bound to stir up some resentment. For several years, RILEY WESTON, a 32-year-old divorced actress and screenwriter, has been passing herself off as a 19-year-old, originally to get good roles and later to promote herself as a writing wunderkind. She successfully fooled her agent, the press, her colleagues and Disney, which recently signed her to a six-figure deal. Her secret was discovered last week when someone tipped off Entertainment Tonight that Weston...