Word: sectioning
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Park, Lord and screenwriter Karey Kirkpatrick stocked Chicken Run with a cross section of Brit types: Bunty (Imelda Staunton) is bossy; silly Babs (Jane Horrocks, who played Bubble on Ab Fab) is forever knitting--when she gets morose, she knits a noose. Mac (Lynn Ferguson) is the nearsighted soul of Scottish ingenuity. Fowler (Benjamin Whitrow), a crusty veteran of the RAF, says Yanks can't be trusted: "always late for every war." The hens' lines to the outside world are Nick (Timothy Spall) and Fetcher (Phil Daniels), two music-hall Cockney rats--larcenists with a soft streak...
...most of the delay. Last week he got hundreds of thousands of Cuban women to march for the boy's return in the biggest demonstration seen in Havana for decades; this week tens of thousands of children got a day off school to file dutifully past the U.S. Interests Section in Havana denouncing the yanquis. The Elian case, after all, has been a shot of political Viagra to the aging strongman, and he's in no hurry to see it fade...
...gauge the current state of boomer consciousness. A recently launched site targeted at people over 50, GenerationA.com boasts of its large-size type fonts. Elsewhere, the author of a regular boomer column begins, "I had some serious dental work done this week." The longest threads in the community section of "Boomer Board" are about estrogen-replacement therapies. A new boomer site, myprimetime.com has so brazenly donned the generation's narcissistic garment that without irony, it calls its series of cheesy self-evaluation quizzes "Me Meters." On "Are You a Candidate for Burnout?" I scored...
...Other money from the campaign went to improve undergraduate education, including 28 new faculty positions and funding for more teaching fellow positions to decrease section size...
...June 1997 The University announces that from 1988 to 1994 it secretly acquired 52.6 acres of land in the Allston section of Boston...