Word: airport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unfortunately, before I could ease into the blissful sea of relaxation that is summer, I had an unfriendly encounter with reality. I was on the Delta Shuttle (flights every hour on the half-hour from Boston's Logan Airport to New York's LaGuardia) about a week and a half ago, heading home for my brother's graduation from high school. Of the 100+ people on the flight, I was one of only four who was not in some form of suited attire. I sat down at the end of an empty aisle...
...plane glided smoothly onto the runway in New York and my neighbor became absorbed into the surge of people leaving the airport. I looked out at the suited women and men hopping into their cabs and assorted car services and, from the perspective of security that two more years of undirected life provides, felt strangely excited about the possibilities of post-college life...
...people standing around the airport, which had been festooned with GO SONICS! signs, looked gloomy. It's true, of course, that people in Seattle can look gloomy even in the off season, despite the city's obvious charms. It rains a lot, after all, and many Seattle residents are of Scandinavian descent. I wouldn't attempt to describe in detail what it's like to come upon Scandinavians who have been rained on for a while, except to say that it doesn't have much in common with seeing Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor...
There's no excuse for leaving Harvard without ever setting foot in one of the oldest and most fascinating metropolises in America. Fleeting images of skyscrapers, the townhouses of Back Bay and the Boston side of the Charles River on your cab ride from Logan Airport simply...
Bill Bennett can scarcely walk into an airport or restaurant these days without an admirer's stopping to scold him about his refusal to run for President. He sometimes responds, only half jokingly, that he would have to give up too much influence. As Education Secretary for President Reagan and drug czar for President Bush, Bennett spent eight years around the White House. "And I can't imagine," he says, "how being President could be more interesting than all the things I'm doing...