Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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when they weren't talking about what the passage of time had done to Harvard, they talked about what it had done to all of them "I'm afraid we've all changed more than we ought to admit," said Scott. "Some of us have gained weight, a lot more of us have lost weight, we've all gone grey...
...personality. My guess is that although a seasoned alum might be able to discern what was characteristically Harvard (or, I suppose, Radcliffe) about what I did from January 19th to the 21st, 1980, my classmates would be best at imagining how I felt at the time. Even those who weren't Crimson editors could, in a word, relate...
...Knesset debates, last week's performance was noteworthy for its invective. As soon as Peres took the stand to deliver his 45-minute critique of the government, Likud deputies began charging that he had "bought" Peretz and Linn. Retorted Peres: "I bought no one. You, the Likud, weren't true to your own platform. Linn and Peretz acted with integrity." When Peres tried to resume, Likud Deputy Pinhas Goldstein shouted: "Will someone tell me where I can get some pills for nausea?" To that, Labor's Dov Ben-Meir shot back: "In the coalition agreement, there...
...performed beautifully as a machine and as an actor. And Spielberg found the children easy to work with, explaining the story in terms of fairy tales and board games. For the main roles he had interviewed more than 300 children. "Many of them were remarkable," he says, "but they weren't real. They thought before they felt. Then, just a few weeks before we were to start shooting, Henry Thomas walked in. He gave a dreadful reading. I could see he was petrified. But when I asked him to improvise a scene with our casting director, he transformed immediately...
Such a survivor. Such a complicated mass of neural wiring. Such a tangle of contradictions. His upbringing should have produced a temperamental brat. He peanut-buttered the neighbors' windows. As his endlessly indulgent mother Leah says, "His badness was so original that there weren't even books to tell you what to do." Steven Spielberg's precocious success might have created a pampered tyrant. But as Leah says, and as everyone who knows him agrees, "He doesn't have a blown-upness about...