Word: unafraid
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...Galapagos archipelago. Even today, the cluster of islands, a province of Ecuador that lies some 600 miles off the South American coast, seems idyllic: the giant tortoises known as galapagos, which gave the islands their name, still amble across the scrubby landscape, sea-lion pups and Galapagos penguins gaze unafraid at scuba divers, marine iguanas crawl over volcanic rocks along the shore, and strolling tourists have to detour around blue-footed boobies (a type of seabird) busily performing courtship rituals. Puerto Ayora, the islands' largest town (pop. 8,000), comprises a tranquil collection of quaint hotels, craft shops and seafood...
Interesting and interested are the words which leap to mind when discussing Adams House resident tutor Carsey Yee. "A large part of being charismatic is being unafraid, and Carsey's good at that," says Scott F. Kocher '97. Carsey is not shy. "If you're in a room with Carsey, you know you're in a room with Carsey," follows Jonathan E. Finkelstein '96. Carsey's laugh is enough to put anyone at ease. He can invariably be spotted in the dining hall, pulling up a chair next to a student or introducing himself to someone he doesn't know...
...politely posing few problems for Clinton or his predecessor, George Bush. But control of the panel moves from the courtly, bland and ineffectual Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island to the reactionary Helms, who promises to let few Administration positions go unquestioned. Helms has always been a bomb thrower, unafraid of blowing up reputations abroad and at home. He likened Haitian leader Jean- Bertrand Aristide to Adolf Hitler. He still refers to the world's most populous country as "Red" China. He stuck up for the architects of apartheid over the black majority in South Africa and once accused Reagan...
...Weld has been unafraid to tease all three opponents, referring to them once as the "three amigos" and running television commercials painting all three as typical tax-and-spend Democrats...
After a decade of smart people playing dumb (the David Letterman syndrome), it's a tonic to watch a show whose creators are unafraid to parade their erudition. MST3K, which is incorporated under the apt moniker Best Brains, Inc., is for snobs and slackers -- a crash course in popular culture, high and low. Pay attention, for without warning or footnoting you may hear allusions to Thomas Pynchon, Susan Faludi, Joseph Campbell, Jenny Holzer, Andrew Sarris or Anna Kisselgoff. A starlet bathing in a lake suggests "Fanne Foxe in a Maxfield Parrish painting." And don't worry if some...