Word: admits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that the Jamet character is kept in ignorance of her true situation and, in her innocence, exploited. There is also some rather ugly background information that leads one to believe that Housekeeper Frey may be a good deal more psychotic in his motivations than the movie cares to admit openly, while his male companion may be somewhat more than charmingly antisocial in some of his. The movie is, finally, quite dishonest: an antibourgeois tract that is far from forthright in admitting where it's coming from or what it's aiming at. When the chuckles die, what...
Although only about ten students showed up at the meeting, all said they knew many others who watch soaps but are embarrassed to "confess." "A lot of people, especially here, really don't want to admit it," Richard A. Rohan '81 said yesterday. "They associate soaps with total mindlessness," he added...
Bowersock is teaching a junior tutorial and advising three thesis candidates. Professors are more "stretchable" than they care to admit, Bowersock contends. He recalled one exceptionally unyielding professor of ancient history who refused to teach a tutorial many years ago, when Bowersock was chairman of the Classics Department. After the professor announced that he "was too busy" to participate in tutorial, Bowersock coolly accepted the ultimatum, then replied, fine, he would lead the tutorial himself. Sufficiently humiliated, the professor "suddenly discovered he had the time...
...scientist in Rocky Horror Picture Show galvanized a nationwide cult. Flaunting himself provacatively, Curry struts about in garters and makeup, eyes narrowed, lips curled, singing out as the embodiment of pure lust. The fans scream hysterically, shouting at almost every phrase; they love it. Even the skeptic has to admit that the guy has something...
This argument had already been sharply rejected by Gromyko. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan, he bluntly told the U.S., "Our advice on this score is simple: it is high time you admit this whole matter is artificial and proclaim it to be closed...