Word: weir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...setting comes as close as is Nielsen-feasible to admitting that class is still in session: that it does matter where you were born and what you own, that there are invisible psychological obstacles to moving outside your circle, that social mobility is hardly frictionless. When school brain Lindsay Weir on Freaks, for instance, mixes with a crowd of rebels, she is dallying with kids who, as one puts it, "shoplift in [her] daddy's store." Roswell, likewise, explores nature-vs.-nurture questions through its teen aliens--two were adopted by a well-off family; the other grew up poorer...
...This year's girl does not have supernatural powers. This year's girl does not wield a sword or a stake, does not have a pinup's bod, does not even sport a radiant mane of natural curls. What Lindsay Weir has is a prodigious brain that she's slightly uncomfortable with, an olive-drab jacket weighing on her shoulders like chain mail and--something rare enough among prime-time adults, let alone teens--a genuine crisis of faith. Having witnessed, alone, the death of her grandmother--who told Lindsay, as she slipped away, that she saw "nothing" beyond--Lindsay...
According to Weir, a number of other vacancies--such as the head coach position for the squash, fencing, and men's soccer teams--prevented this search from taking top priority...
...towards the end of the search," said Assistant Director of Sports Media Relations Jamie Weir, who is not on the committee. "My guess is that a decision will be made late next week or early the following week...
According to Weir, a number of other vacancies--such as the head coach position for the squash, fencing, and men's soccer teams--prevented this search from taking top priority...