Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plans on spending the night with her good friend--and the proverbial Head T.F. of WASP fashion--Lilly Pulitzer. She'll promises to bring a few of her new canvas shoes for Dr. Know to sample. Dr. K will bring the Nebuchadnezzar of Champagne--that's 12 liters...
...spite of the longtime association between Harvard and WASP-y elitism, Noguera says he believes that Harvard has succeeded in many ways that Berkeley has failed...
Little Melvin will bring Nate--a decent guy despite his shabby work--to an uncomfortable end. Indeed, no one in this movie gets what he or she really wants or deserves. Even the romance between Ben's older brother Van (Adrien Brody) and his Wasp princess Dubbie (Carolyn Murphy) ends badly, when her ethereal perfection turns out to be only skin- (and coiffure-) deep...
Eventually, of course, the clubs are going to have to go. For now, they're pretty low on the list of the world's evils, but final clubs as we know them will probably go the way of WASP-only country club (if the WASP-only country club has, as I hope, gone that way). While I fully acknowledge a difference in degree between final clubs and other, more extreme branches of the elitist patriarchy, they're still on the same continuum, and the march of history seems to suggest that somehow, at some point, their number will come...
...peckii needs excellent vision in order to prevent its own extinction. "Sex pheromones from females probably help males locate the general neighborhood of a wasp," says Ehmer. But the male, who lives less than 6 hrs. after taking flight, must rely on his eyesight to zero in quickly on that wasp and its female parasite so he can perpetuate his species before he expires...