Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questions themselves are not enough for us: we want explanations as well. Taking on the guise of armchair psychologists, we point to Hart's puritanical mother. Perhaps his childhood of repression was the key to his adulthood of lechery. When we are at loss for answers we turn to "experts" such as former Hart pollster Pat Caddell who, in the most ominous of tones, confides to us that Hart has had a long-standing political death wish...
...Yard, freshmen were watching some of the classmates tossing around a lacrosse ball from the vantage of a couch outside Holworthy Hall and a love seat and armchair in front of Thayer Hall. The barefoot, shorts-clad players hit various passers-by with less-than carefully aimed shots...
THIS WEEK IS SHAPING UP TC be one of those rare periods when the citizens of a country engage in some serious self-reflection. The United States is settling its collective butt into a huge national armchair to ponder the possibilities presented by the ABC mini-series, Amerika, and patriots everywhere are swilling wine coolers and buying cars in celebration of President's Day. Aside from these nationalistic excesses, though, Dewitt has noticed several movies now playing that attempt to engage the viewer in the greater questions of life. Do we exist in a world that conforms to some sort...
...sometimes it seems that in the West, and especially in the U.S., there is also room for opening and restructuring. Armchair warriors exist not only in our socialist world but in the capitalist one. The difference is that ours build their careers on uncritical pro-Sovietism and yours build their careers on blind anti-Sovietism. John F. Kennedy was right when he said that the real borders are not the ones that divide countries, but the ones that divide people. Your hard-liners do not want international tensions to diminish. They do not want glasnost and freedom to develop...
...front, Conner never rounded any buoy less than 40 seconds ahead and won by a jarring 1:41. Cheering could be heard from as far away as San Diego. Thanks to onboard ESPN cameras and the natural drama of the Indian Ocean, the sport is suddenly televisable, and armchair America is always ready to celebrate any arcane venture representing Stars & Stripes (even if a few people still wonder who this fellow Halyard is in the front of the ship...