Word: bookshelf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NIGHT, the manager of my restaurant stopped me and said "Hey, you go to Harvard, could you put together this bookshelf?" Big mistake...
Over the years he has built a loyal following, particularly among cynical baby boomers. Although his first crude efforts at experimental poetry have been consigned to a dusty bookshelf in his seven-fireplace New Hampshire home, O'Rourke found success in the late 1970s as editor in chief at National Lampoon. By the early 1980s, he started free-lancing and soon became a Rolling Stone regular. Several books followed, among them Holidays in Hell, an outrageous account of his world travels, and Republican Party Reptile, an uneven collection of essays that includes his infamous "How to Drive Fast on Drugs...
...life. Many publications have answered that description in their time, from the medieval compendiums to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in 1768, to three contemporary one-volume works. Which one of that trio is best? It depends on the size of the reader's requirements, bank account and bookshelf...
February 3: Today my roommate gave me a copy of TETRIS. It looks stupid and simple. I played one game, and then wrote a list of 30 courses to shop. I played another game, and then reorganized my bookshelf alphabetically, by author. I played another game...