Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's a nasty little thing called rules in this world, and most of us can't join the Academy unless we have contributed large sums of money or are in the upper echelons of Hollywood society (e.g. have already won an Academy award). These rules are a problem, seeing as their application has resulted in an Academy whose members are old (median age over 50), predominately white men. That leaves a significant part of the country out of the loop. This being a democracy, the people must be spoken...
...antiseptically sex-free workplace is impossible and unnatural. We want a sophisticated art of seduction. Feminist excesses have paralyzed and neutered white, upper-middle-class young men, as should be obvious to any visitor to the campuses of the elite schools. I want a society of lusty men and lusty women whose physical and mental energies are in exuberant free flow. While men must behave honorably (Governors and Presidents should not be dropping their pants in front of female employees or secretly preying on buxom young interns), women must also watch how they dress and behave. For every gross male...
...Upper-class students shout welcomes to first-years outside Annenberg, despite the downpour. Now that's House spirit...
...There are still a lot of people in upper-crust academia that recognize [deafness] as a disability and not as a sub-culture," added Tiffany R. Beechy '99, CODA's program director...
...backing up Russell's beautifully fragile tone. A soul's love song, the Adagio, became Russell's song, putting heartfelt emotion into each note as he rocked gently back and forth to the music. What was most beautiful about this movement was the way in which Russell sustained the upper register notes, almost "sighing" over to the next measure and continuing on with his song. Because of Tipler's control over the orchestra, Russell was free to take liberties here and there while the orchestra safely caught him at the end of the phrases...