Word: harshness
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...TIME/CNN poll completed last week explains the eagerness of many candidates to cuddle with Perot. Since February his favorable rating has declined, from 58% then to 51% now, probably because his harsh attacks on Clinton's policies and persona make him seem too partisan to some people. But Perot's numbers remain strong compared with Clinton's wan ratings. Many voters are aware of Perot's foibles -- wobbling on issues and overreacting to criticism -- but they like his anti-Washington message anyway. As a potential presidential candidate, Perot has actually pulled ahead of Clinton. In the survey, 46% said they...
...obsession in America. Though her work is sometimes overpraised for feminist reasons, it carries a deep strand of % recollection interwoven with sexual fantasy and dreams of vengeance, refracted through strange uses of material. Included in the Venice show are some of her recent cage sculptures, including Cell (Choisy), a harsh essay on memory: inside an iron-mesh enclosure is a pink marble effigy of her childhood home in France, where her parents repaired Gobelin carpets. It has the enticing glow of a Magritte villa at dusk, but above the door to the cage, ready to be tripped, is a guillotine...
...they shot at the ceiling and the people ran out of the room." Now Lawton is wrangling over his script for The Adventures of Fartman, starring Howard Stern, America's top radio ranter. "We didn't hold back," Lawton says. "There's a lot of nudity, some harsh language, a lesbian love scene, and the main character works for an underground sex magazine. We told New Line Cinema the plot, and they said, 'Yeah, it sounds great. But can't we make it PG-13?' " Lawton and Stern are looking for a less fretful sponsor...
...chains are capitalizing on a backlash against diet plans that take pounds off but rarely keep them off. "People want their old favorites, and they're questioning the harsh diets more and more," observes Lynne Scott, director of the Baylor College of Medicine's Diet Modification Clinic. Says Lyn Almon, a dietitian at Emory University Hospital: "There are so many mixed messages bombarding dieters that some people are throwing up their hands and going back to their old eating habits. There's a feeling, 'If I'm going to lose the weight and then just regain it, why start...
What's worse, however, is that Joan Cheng '95 and Haewon Hwang '95, in their zealous attempt to harsh on Epps, diverted attention from their more important (and accurate) allegation: that Harvard handles race relations poorly...