Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caan, he is too trim and cool ever to make us believe that he is more interesting than any other spoiled child. To be sure, he is attempting a difficult thing -acting out the role of gratuitous self-torture -but his performance is never really as vertiginously mad as it should be. The whole film is just a fantasy about going crazy, a fantasy never for a moment in danger of becoming the genuine article...
...full-year introductory courses--fine arts and psychology--at the same time. A young man hungering for experience and stimulation, I gradually became hypnotized by the slides of archaic paintings flashing ever so quickly on the walls of the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall. An alert mind in a trim body, I became irrevocably anesthetized by distantly-articulated words bouncing lazily up the tiered rows of Burr B. Like the summer I spent in Israel, when I ate so many cucumber-laden salads I was forced to stay away from cucumbers for many years, my first year at Harvard exposed...
...there isn't enough money, and as a result administrators are aiming for a brisk 65 degrees as the median temperature in the Houses and classrooms this winter. Last year the median was about 68, and the reason for the lowered temperatures is to cut costs in order to trim the Faculty's deficit-laden budget...
Rather than boost tuition again--the Ed School had hiked its fees $200 for 1974-75 already--Ylvisaker has chosen to run what he called earlier this week "a trim ship...
...first glance, a review of Pehr Gyllenhammar's meteoric career suggests that he rose to the top because he has the right relatives. In 1969, at the age of 34, the trim, handsome lawyer replaced his father as head of Skandia, Sweden's largest insurance company. Two years later he succeeded his father-in-law as managing director of Volvo, the country's biggest industrial concern. Nepotism or not, the selection has certainly paid off. Under Gyllenhammar's leadership, Volvo has not only increased its sales by 70% (to more than $2 billion...