Word: formals
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Seniors donned formal wear and flocked to the Radcliffe Yard for the Senior Soiree. This was the first year men as well as women were able to buy tickets to the traditional "Sadie Hawkins"-style event, which lasted approximately...
...satiric performance that drew constant laughter from the audience of about 50 students, Hughes poked fun of formal, stringent procedural codes at the Supreme Court, and expressed frustration that she was always pigeonholed as a "lesbian" performer...
...this money is spent, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Committee on Resources, of which Baird is a member, presented a report last week that suggested the central administration incorporate more Faculty input into University decision-making. Specifically, the committee recommended that President Neil L. Rudenstine create a formal mechanism, such as a committee of faculty members from FAS and other schools, to advise central administration spending. The proposal is more than reasonable, and Rudenstine should act on it immediately...
More than 90% of the deliveries in Rwanda are facilitated by traditional midwives. These women often learn their trade from their mothers, by watching other village women give birth and by giving birth themselves. "I had no formal training," says Modesta, a traditional midwife. "I'm only learning now how to recognize risk factors and to decrease the risk of infection." Their equipment often consists of little more than cloth, an old blade and a string to tie off the umbilical cord. While the Rwandan government hopes eventually to have most women deliver in hospitals, that is wishful thinking...
Ellis didn't lack for formal audacity. He Cuisinarted a bunch of cultural influences, with Dostoyevsky, the '80s preppie-murder case and the original Psycho (Norman Bates=Patrick Bateman) sliced and spliced into an inversion of The Bonfire of the Vanities. In Tom Wolfe's novel, Wall Streeter Sherman McCoy accidentally kills someone and gets hounded by an entire city. Patrick, who works at the same fictional firm as McCoy (Pierce and Pierce, if you get the joke's knife point), slaughters half a dozen people, or maybe 20 or 40; and not only does he get away with...