Word: studiousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost ridiculous contrast between Snowden's experience and that of the more skilled (if less studious) NBA trio highlights a malaise of today's "big-time" college game--a maddening lack of continuity. Most fans feel as if they never know a team. As soon as a team begins to develop a particular character and show some promise, it is decimated by graduation and early defections...
...actress might have been Meryl Streep or Michelle Pfeiffer. But here it is--20 years after Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber first produced their gorgeously cynical opera about Eva Peron--reimagined through the eye of director Alan Parker and the flesh of Madonna. The take is dense and studious, an aptly conservative adaptation of a pop classic; it lets the score seduce and the star shine. Madonna, who is up to the vocal demands of the role, makes Eva--sexual predator, social climber, queen of the Argentine, would-be saint--an appealing character in a cautionary fable. The moral...
...preface to his performance, Weidle had explained that his ability was the result of studious practice in the dining halls. His introduction on the show as a Harvard student was greeted with mixed audience reaction, including some boos. In response, Letterman quipped, "Oh, you couldn't get in, so you hate...
Quincy House, long thought of as a studious, pre-med house, had the highest percentage of hard science concentrators (44.8) as well as the highest percentage of Asians...
Indeed, Lester complains he is disappointed by Harvard's meager April Fool's Day spirit. He and his roommates, Tobias N. Nanda '99 and Ethan E. Thurow '99, say they are determined to inject more silliness into the "studious" atmosphere on campus...