Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know what studying was." A grind for perfection, Cruise today often carries a dictionary so he can look up unfamiliar words. "He comes into my office," says Top Gun co-producer Don Simpson, "and goes over my stack of books, taking notes. Last night he used the word plethora. Two years ago, he didn't know the word...
...Mapother family faced a plethora of problems. The parents divorced, and Mary Lee moved her children to Louisville. Tom missed his dad, but says, "My father was not a guy to go out and hit baseballs to me. It was my mother who took me to my first ball game." In 1984 Cruise's father died of cancer. He had never seen any of his son's films. Though there was no reconciliation, Tom's father finally acknowledged his domestic mistakes. An edge of anger creeps into Cruise's voice: "But he never said...
Advertisers, who know a trendy location when they see one, are flocking to / Berlin. The Wall has become a potent new symbol in a plethora of TV commercials celebrating its opening. Pepsi-Cola filmed an ad that features a young woman handing a flower to a border guard. Quintessence, a Chicago cosmetics firm, taped a 30-second corporate ad depicting a family reunion at the Brandenburg Gate. AT&T interviewed people at the Wall who told how they phoned friends when it opened...
Almost everyone at Harvard has an issue that, for one reason or another, is of deep concern: abortion, capital punishment, homelessness, Palestinian deportation, El Salvador. Many groups have been formed to raise awareness about these issues, and some have been more successful than others. Apparently, however, the plethora of groups involved in tabling, postering, organizing meetings and holding rallies has made it increasingly difficult to grab the average student's attention. Because of this fact, COCA took the attention-grabbing step of placing falsified draft notices with a forged signature of Senator Kerry in the mailboxes of 900 undergraduate...
...Arianna seemed to hear a roaring, as if she had held seashells against her ears"), the moment echoes the heart-thudding scene between Scarlett O'Hara and Ashley Wilkes ("There ) was a low curious roaring sound in her ears as of seashells being held against them"). Yet despite a plethora of parallel passages, Alberoni denies she has ever read Mitchell's novel. By contrast, Deforges admits that she borrowed heavily from Gone With the Wind -- but only for the first 100 pages. At that point, says Deforges, she tired of the "literary game" and set off on her own tangent...