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  • The $45 cost is off-putting to my grad-school budget (abundance of other products left behind by moving girlfriends is a second reason).

    Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009

  • In 1904, undergraduate programs were added - yet, all these years later, the campus still has a grad-school feel, Garvey said.

    John Garvey is inaugurated as Catholic University president Jenna Johnson 2011

  • I'm not a big fan of the grad-school approach to horror movies, in which Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) is about commies, Dawn of the Dead (1978) is about mindless consumerism, and the recent spate of torture-porn garbage is "about" renditions and waterboarding.

    Stefan Beck: Must Be Jelly: Yeaworth's The Blob Stefan Beck 2010

  • She is interested in finding words for a whole array of disparities, for the different emotional mixtures that coalesce when her teenage self reads Tolstoy in her grandmother's house in Turkey, when she's studying in Samarkand one hot summer where she has to pick ants out of the jam, when she's experiencing a collective infatuation at grad-school that mirrors her understanding of Dostoevsky's Demons.

    The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman – review 2011

  • Reaching back, the psycho-kinetic redemption of rape victimhood in Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men became the grad-school Gossip Girl of John Krasinski's adaptation.

    Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1 Omer Rosen 2011

  • I'm not a big fan of the grad-school approach to horror movies, in which Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) is about commies, Dawn of the Dead (1978) is about mindless consumerism, and the recent spate of torture-porn garbage is "about" renditions and waterboarding.

    Stefan Beck: Must Be Jelly: Yeaworth's The Blob Stefan Beck 2010

  • In 1948, Mr. Keepnews began moonlighting for the Record Changer, a magazine owned by grad-school acquaintance Bill Grauer.

    This Jazz Master Is No Musician Marc Myers 2011

  • Or just now going back to grad-school, where I could commiserate with my best friends about how hard the work is?

    Reconciling this recession. Poorly. « 2009

  • I'm not a big fan of the grad-school approach to horror movies, in which Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) is about commies, Dawn of the Dead (1978) is about mindless consumerism, and the recent spate of torture-porn garbage is "about" renditions and waterboarding.

    Stefan Beck: Must Be Jelly: Yeaworth's The Blob Stefan Beck 2010

  • Reaching back, the psycho-kinetic redemption of rape victimhood in Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men became the grad-school Gossip Girl of John Krasinski's adaptation.

    Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1 Omer Rosen 2011

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