Word: aah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent your days lolling around eating grapes, you're probably beginning to envy the busy, (over-)productive lifestyles of the proletariat (that's us hard-working types). If, however, you work (i.e. study) for a living, you must be fantasizing about how you could pull off that couch/grape thing (aah--spring break!). No matter how diligent a little beaver you are, with the Moon's nodes crossing the Pisces-Virgo axis, you're sure to be plotting moments of escape from drudgery (thank goodness for study breaks and the phone). But in the end, work will turn...
...promise of food and friends, or fervently repeating the all-important mantra, "You know you want to join." Although the eager recruiters realize that the majority of flyers will eventually end up in the trash bin, it doesn't seem to dampen their spirit or enthusiasm one bit. Aah, such is the strength of newly gained faith...
...people were not as famous and charismatic as Jackie, who hovered, Cheshire cat-like, in the public imagination for more than 30 years, her enigmatic smile evanescing into an invisible privacy where admirers were not welcome or allowed. The posthumous chance to enter this forbidden space and ooh and aah over--and maybe buy one of--Jackie's personal possessions figured to be irresistible to plenty of people, and Sotheby's was not disappointed in its expectations. Its fat, glossy catalog of the lots up for auction sold more than 100,000 copies (at $90 hardback, $45 paper). During...
...want to have to prevent you from visiting. Believe me, these potential limitations would be an inconvenience for me too. Besides, it's lovely to have guests. It's always a pleasure to have groups of people stare at you and ooh and aah as you walk...
After all, the beautiful old buildings of the postcard Harvard that tourists ooh and aah at in the Yard crumble, age and become outdated in the real world...