Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shocked to learn that University Health Services (UHS) has a policy of not validating for parking for students. This is a hard policy to swallow given the outrageously high parking rates at the parking garage serving Holyoke Center ($3 per half-hour) and the fact that UHS does validate for Faculty members and other University employees who pay less in premiums out-of-pocket than...
Williams plays Professor Phillip Brainard, a brilliant but easily distracted college professor. In fact, Brainard is so forgetful that he seems almost impaired: he has twice left his fiancee (Marcia Gay Harden) stranded at the altar because he neglected the wedding. The scenario is a difficult one to swallow, but Flubber tries its hardest to create an alternative reality. Brainard doesn't mean any harm in his absent-mindedness--he's simply too darn busy working on his green blob...
...will demand stronger fiscal discipline and less state investment ? economic medicine which may be hard to swallow. ?There is likely to be a long period of political turmoil in Asia as the IMF?s measures take effect,? says Branegan, noting early signs of resistance in Thailand, Indonesia and Korea. Some of those men in aviator jackets may yet pay the ultimate political price for taking the tigers by the tail...
Dion seems to have adopted the sound that Mariah Carey abandoned several years back--that crushing, crashing, pomp-and-circumstance style that seeks to swallow the listener up in production and emotion. The main problem with Let's Talk About Love is that Dion's sense of dynamics is only a trifle more refined than Saddam Hussein's sense of international protocol. She doesn't build songs, she demolishes them, she overruns them, like Caesar conquering Gaul. Oh, she tries to rein herself in, but to no avail. The song The Reason starts off gently, then, out of nowhere, Dion...
...Romanov dynasty. During a celebration marking the third centennial anniversary of Romanov rule, the evil sorcerer Rasputin makes an abrupt entrance. He places a curse on the czar's family and with a little bit of fairy dust subsequently incites the Russian revolution (it's a tough pill to swallow). Though her family escapes for Paris (in the all too familiar get-separated-by-fast-moving-train scene), Anastasia is suddenly orphaned...