Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wealth of any nation could be measured by the number of people who live in poverty. The same can be said of Harvard. At a time when university administrators and alumni donors are busy celebrating the accumulation of great wealth, we would do well to remember that several thousand workers in our midst share neither the wealth nor the self-indulgence it so easily inspires...
...Some women find that conjuring mental images is the best way to go. An anonymous Cabot House sophomore prefers "erotica that is heavy on the [emotional] build-up and romance...Anne Rice is good for that." But, like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words...
BIBLIOPHILIACS ANONYMOUS Got a few extra thousand you want to throw away on a photo album? Try these for size...
...film gives its human characters only cursory recognition. They are thinly veiled stereotypes giving stereotyped reactions in scenes that have been written a thousand times before, in a thousand better ways. The bats produce only laughter rather than gasps of fear as they crawl gargoyle-like across the screen. Casper and Kimsey are flat and undeveloped. In fact, the sole target audience that will not be disappointed by Bats would appear to be the masochists. Although quite honestly, the same affect could be achieved by banging one's head against the wall for an hour and a half...
...Pictures, though they may be worth a thousand words, can't provide the precision of expression that is offered by the written word, a precision that Vonnegut exploited with mastery. Actors, delivering the material in a drastically reduced number of lines in the limited span of a two hour movie, can never hope to match the brilliance of Vonnegut's prose. It's futile to even...