Word: revelation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While providing comic relief to Harvard's often over-stressed students, IGP members also revel in the relationships formed within the group...
...Colleges which put tradition above common sense. (For example, one Ivy college had a traditional "streaking" day on which alcohol helped the timid act out, until the injuries outweighed the "fun." Another Ivy had a day on which students climbed a hill to revel with their six-packs...
Sport at its best is a microcosm of our species' nobility. But if we revel in watching the grace, skill and determination of men and women, we also can't help noticing when this prism of our society also refracts us in all our prurience...
...crimps the campaign of a potential political rival. The party in question was to celebrate the launch of Talk, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown's latest magazine. Brown and Harvey Weinstein, a hefty Democratic supporter whose Miramax Films part-owns the publication, had applied to hold their August revel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is owned by New York City. But Giuliani balked when rumors, still unsubstantiated, swirled that the magazine's first cover girl would be HILLARY CLINTON, who is likely to face the mayor in next year's Senate race. This act led to more press...
...Kubrick was used to that danger, even appeared to revel in it. Most of his pictures, whatever their genre roots, disappointed genre expectations, not to mention critical anticipation and occasionally the studio's box-office ambitions. As Eyes Wide Shut seeks to avoid those perils, it has something besides its considerable intrinsic merits going...