Word: ugh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much drive pickup trucks as aim them. And they don't cotton to being thought of as sissies. Somehow, the state highway commission failed to take that into account when it announced that the license plates on Texas' 13.5 million vehicles would henceforth carry not only a border of -- ugh! -- baby blue but also a limp slogan, THE FRIENDSHIP STATE...
Schwartz seems surprised that her article provoked a storm of criticism. Says she: "Companies aren't looking for ways to keep women down. They are looking for tools to help women surface." Even if Schwartz's methods have met a resounding "ugh," meeting that goal is crucial for women as well as their employers. Nearly two-thirds of all new workers in the labor force over the next decade will be women. That is the most compelling argument against any notion that companies can afford to sideline the millions of workingwomen who will decide to become mothers as well...
...other force was Senior Mark Prascak's organization, Undergraduate Histrionics (UGH). Prascak set out to direct interactive plays, staging them in such places as the Adams House swimming pool and among the tables and chairs of the Adams dining hall. Audiences found his confrontational staging and his absurdist revisions of classic plays either inventive or infuriating, but the shows got people talking, even people who hadn't seen them. That is no small achievement, considering that most campus theater productions are seen by few and forgotten by most after their two-weekend runs...
...UGH teamed up for one memorable project that brought most of the Harvard artistic community--and its observers--together for a single event. The "Sea Monkeys Sideshow" turned the whole Carpenter Center into a piece of performance art for an evening. Actors, storytellers, musicians, directors, dancers, painters and intrigued onlookers participated in the variety of peripatetic performances. In one room, you could watch a pianist, a trumpeter, a dancer and a muralist all creating and improvising at once--and you could even pick up a paintbrush and join in yourself, on the adjacent wall. Even the ideas that didn...
Inman-Ebel plays a recording from an earlier session. "Gross. Ugh. I can't believe I sounded like that," says the client, a 23-year-old announcer on public television, who says she was turned down for a job at one Chattanooga station because of her accent. They practice another sentence with the recorder on, and Inman-Ebel plays back the tape, exulting in her client's progress: "If all I had was that sentence, I wouldn't be able to locate that person anywhere. It was a nonaccent." Her highest accolade...