Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blondes Prefer Gentlemen, Brunettes Too--Redheads Included! 1949 "What kind of girl do you have in mind?...someone who's a cross between June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor...a gal with a sharp sense of humor, neatly stacked...
Marilyn may represent some unique alchemy of sex, talent and Technicolor. She is pure movies. I recently watched her as Lorelei Lee in her musical smash, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The film is an ideal mating of star and role, as Marilyn deliriously embodies author Anita Loos' seminal, shame-free gold digger. Lorelei's honey-voiced, pixilated charm may be best expressed by her line, regarding one of her sugar daddies, "Sometimes Mr. Esmond finds it very difficult to say no to me." Whenever Lorelei appears onscreen, undulating in second-skin, cleavage-proud knitwear or the sheerest orange chiffon, all heads...
...have existed as only a legendary rumor, a Helen of Troy or Tinker Bell. But thanks to Blockbuster, every generation now has immediate access to the evanescent perfection of Marilyn bumping and cooing her way through that chorine's anthem, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Only movie stars have the chance to live possibly forever, and maybe that's why they're all so crazy. Madonna remade Diamonds in the video of her hit Material Girl, mimicking Marilyn's hot-pink gown and hot-number choreography, and the sly homage seemed fitting: a blond...
...observation is that work experience oftenexposes recent grads to many new careerpossibilities that they prefer to legal careers,"says Pforzheimer House pre-law tutor Kayla Bakshi,who worked in consulting at McKinsey & Co. beforecoming to Harvard for a joint J.D. and M.B.A.program. For those students who have a vagueinterest in the law, deferring law school orwaiting to apply gives them time to get anon-the-job idea of whether or not they really wantto be lawyers. The time just after collegegraduation "is also a great time to find out moreabout the legal profession and see if it is reallywhat...
...book only five years after receiving a Ph.D. and be teaching successfully is asking too much. Assistant Professor of English Ann Pellegrini '86 writes in an e-mail message that the constant "gearing up for the job market" distracts Faculty members from "the teaching and writing they would far prefer to be doing...