Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undergraduates the outside world seems completely distinct from the one within the university. College values intelligence, grades and ideals; the outside world values money and prestige and no integration seems to exist between the two. This mentality was illustrated beautifully in last week's Independent, whose cover featured a smiling graduate holding her diploma, whose face became a mask of horror when she turned to the real world and realized she had to find a job. Going from being a full-time student to a full-time breadwinner seems like jumping from a sauna into the Atlantic Ocean...
...keen on having every detail of her plight made public - specifics of her condition have been withheld at her request. But that hasn't stopped her saga from being documented and updated almost hourly on CNN, MSNBC et al since it first broke in June. There has been a distinct lack of specifics in the reporting: At this point, it?s not known for certain whether Nielsen actually has cancer, although the urgency surrounding the rescue mission has led some to expect the worst...
...according to Shim, the new WTF club is distinct from the others in its style and its form...
Still, the fact that a relationship between Angela and Lester seems a distinct (and perhaps even worthy) possibility is shocking for a movie that is ostensibly mainstream. In many respects, for that matter, this film is unusual in its refusal to play by the rules of Hollywood filmmaking: demolishing the boundaries between adult problems and adolescent fears, and, most significantly, declining to impose any code of morals over its characters' behavior. This is the first movie I have seen in a long time (well, at least since Go) that makes drug dealing seem like an upwardly mobile profession...
When seniors entered their Houses, there was one non-randomized class in residency and the Houses' distinct personalities were still evident...