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...friend and I set out for the park. Certainly, I thought, a park would offer no hurdles, necessarily being on the ground floor and having no obstacles but the grass and a bench. However, when we arrived I noticed that it was also roped off--this time by thick wire at about mid-thigh. While I remember being lifted over this boundary as a small child, as I got older, I had not even noticed hopping over it on the way into the park. Now, in another moment of grumbling, I got down to slither underneath...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Adding Insult to Injury | 7/18/1995 | See Source »

...going to Harvard. It all seemed so simple when that thick envelope came in the mail asking you to join the club, become one of us, a member of the fellowship of educated men and women, a student at America's premier university. How could you refuse that certificate with your name in stately calligraphy, your own invitation to a four-year cocktail party with the best and brightest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So You're Going to Harvard... | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...read the first page, she circled andunderlined line after line with a thick red pen,shaking her head in disapproval. My mechanics, shesaid, were a mess. This was perfectly true;semicolons were my downfall. After glancing at thesecond page, she handed the essay back to me, andinquired if I was taking Expository Writing. No, Iresponded, growing meeker by the minute, I'd beenexempt. My answer did not sit well with her, andshe expressed grave displeasure. Where exactly didI transfer form?, she inquired. the AmericanCollege of Singapore, I answered, Well, Idefinitely needed to take Expose, she said, and itwas imperative...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: Taking Chances: My Story | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...aces have created a big destruct-o-fest, with explosions all over Gotham, yet the film is pizazz deficient. A series of set pieces with no forward momentum, Batman Forever drags laboriously, as if the Batmobile were being towed away with the emergency brake still on. The picture leaves thick black skid marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TROUBLE IN GOTHAM CITY | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

Their best selling Chocolate Pudding ice cream,while excellent, is only for the true chocolatelover. It's soft, thick and rich and made ofbittersweet chocolate. It could be difficult toeat an entire cup without a jug of water to gowith...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Ice Cream Lover? Welcome to Eden | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

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