Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rain-soaked November afternoon in Las Cruces, N.M., Aaron Soto, 13, traded places with his former East Picacho Elementary School teachers and for two hours conducted an in-service technology-training conference for a dozen of them, arrayed before him around a horseshoe of computer terminals. Aaron, a freshman at Mayfield High School, ran through a series of sophisticated videoconferencing demonstrations. Later he provided individual assistance to his adult "students," pacing behind them, peering over the top of his gold-rimmed glasses to look at a screen or click a mouse...
Take, for example, Starship Troopers, which on first glance seems like as dumb a blockbuster as they come. The premise of the film is to corral a truly mind-boggling number of Aaron Spelling bit players into playing futuristic action heroes fighting giant insects on the planet Klendathu. The movie doesn't skimp on the gunfire or the chomping, stomping Bug Things, which of course are its major selling points...
...with silver eyelashes and gorgeous Nordic hair, Robert is New York's "Prettiest Boy of the Decade." His notoriety proves valuable to his friends, providing them with invitations to the city's best parties, concerts, and cultural events. Though he is an infinitely talented composer--a protege of Aaron Copland--parties constitute his primary activity...
...AARON "MODELS INC." SPELLING AGE: 70ish HEIGHT: 5 ft. 10 in. WEIGHT: 132 OCCUPATION: TV guy BEST PUNCH: Defending the firing of a pregnant Tylo from Melrose Place, a lawyer said, "Would Roseanne Barr be hired to play a dramatic role as Miss America...
...Aaron S. Mathes '98 found out just how bad "constructive" criticism can be. At the end of the semester, he received an e-mail that listed his grades, followed by "a brief moral booster send-off." However, upon scrolling down the page, Mathes found the list of grades for all his T.F.'s students--the T.F. had clearly forgotten to delete it from the e-mail. The list included not only grades for all students, but also "the T.F.'s honest personal perceptions of each student," Mathes says. When he looked at the T.F.'s comments about him, he found...