Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Falsettoland depicts a special world, it does not require a special audience. Doubtless many gays attend, as actor Lonny Price puckishly implies during the prologue by pointing flashlights into the house as he sings the word homosexuals. But a once exotic Manhattan world has become familiar, and its emotional issues concern everyone. The prevalence of divorce has imposed a less prescriptive definition of family. AIDS has settled into the landscape as yet another way to lose a loved one too soon. As the show tenderly depicts, life's joys tend to be small and quiet and its sorrows abrupt...
...long as that of Jimmy Hoffa. More people, it seems, want to know about David Lynch's eating habits. How many damn fine cups of coffee (lots of milk, gobs of sugar) does he drink each day? Does he share the cherry-pie fixation of his TV hero, Special Agent Cooper? On the Tonight Show, Jay Leno quizzed Lynch about his Guinness Book-worthy consumption of chocolate milk shakes at the Bob's Big Boy chain in Los Angeles. The astounding stats: one every day at 2:30 p.m. for seven years...
...support of increased attention to facultydiversity, Clark cited a "special effort" of thefaculty to recruit minority candidates justbeginning their law teaching careers. He alsonoted that minority hiring was on the agenda atthe September 14 faculty meeting...
...other students say that the handling of foreign coursework varies from department to department. Some concentrations take special measures to ensure that returning students have tutors while others leave it to the student to find...
...effect of a Harvard-funded women's center would be tremendously negative. It sends a message of division, not unification to the Harvard community. It encourages every special interest group to demand their own separate buildings as part of their fundamental rights as students. Why should there not also be a Harvard-funded Black center, Asian center, Puerto Rican center, Gay and Lesbian Center, Somoan Center, ad nauseum? In principle there is no relevant difference unless the staff is willing to say how these concerns are somehow less important...