Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor, for once, has nothing to say. His arguments are proven meritless, rejected by the very authority whose theories they are based upon. Thanks to McLuhan, the professor is discredited, embarrassed--and unequivocally wrong...
...draw upon Harvard resources, namely students, to produce a product for the world beyond Harvard," Vasan writes. "The only preconception I see as holding this perspective back is the notion of college radio as a media for and about students...
...around Washington. It was something like a certainty that the tapes would be the coup de grace. Clinton would destroy himself by twitching, equivocating and storming out of the room. To believe that, all you had to do was ignore the weight of public opinion that's been pressing upon this event all year. Most Americans already know what they dislike about the President. What was brought home by the Clinton squirm session, and then by the transcripts of Monica Lewinsky's testimony that were released the same day, is that the man who really unnerves them is Ken Starr...
...length of 7 ft. and weigh 1,500 lbs.) hang from her necklace and earrings. Driving her Jeep along the beach at Praia do Forte in northern Brazil, she hits the brakes and suddenly does something surprising. She points with pride to a big 400-room resort hotel intruding upon the sea turtles' habitat. "We persuaded the owner to keep buildings low and use unobtrusive lighting," she explains. "That way the turtles don't get disoriented on their way to the water...
...Morrison's Beloved. Oprah Winfrey's love for the book was thick, warm, abiding. With eyewitness immediacy and the God's-eye view of fictive art, Morrison brought the intimate evil of slavery to life in the story of a mother's ultimate sacrifice. When Winfrey discovered the novel upon its publication in 1987, she was moved as a reader, as an African American, as a woman who suffered the death of the child she gave birth to when she was 14; for Oprah, Beloved was a central fable of her race and sex. She knew she had to produce...