Word: biked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...else were sophomores supposed to become accustomed to either the glazed eye trudge or the slightly suicidal bike ride from the Quad to anywhere? Apparently Harvard feels Quadlings have as little interest in reaching civilization before school starts as they will on weekends and holidays during the year...
...that argon? Or titanium? Neither of which is to be confused with something called Kevlar -- the stuff they make bullet-proof vests from. Kevlar these days is a very hot item. There are bulletproof Kevlar canoes, for example. And water skis. And bicycle tights. (A lie: the Kevlar bike tights, for the moment, are imaginary. But remember, you saw them here first.) The rest of these molecular rarities, however, actually exist at your neighborhood sports store. Bring your platinum card...
...flex" of an arrow's aluminum shaft by thirty-thousandths of an inch. Result? A faster arrow and reduced wind resistance. But after radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful in the Northeast, where mountain trails are brutal and steep, composed mostly of rocks the size of refrigerators. You can't navigate them with a bike or, for that matter, with a humvee (the ultimate gearmobile, short...
...country gardens, yacht-studded harbors and stunning beaches, has many attributes to recommend it, not the least of which is that its inhabitants are sufficiently celebrity-trained so that no one stares into opera diva Beverly Sills' grocery cart at Cronig's or gawks at Jackie Onassis riding her bike near her house in Gay Head. A President -- no big deal...
Second, reality hits, and it goes a little something like this. June I: You don't want to read Samuel Se sewall's diary; you want to go to the beach. You go to work. June 2: Sewall sits on the shelf, the beach is a bike-ride away, and you go to work. The cycle continues...