Word: boot
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...founded a half-assed arts collective in our common room? Didn’t we know kind of a lot of punk songs? Couldn’t we quote Sylvia Plath to each other in flat voices—“Every woman adores a Fascist/ The boot in the face, the brute/ Brute heart of a brute like you”? Didn’t we construe practically everything ironically? Weren’t we post-angst, post-emotion...
...change things up? With a new coach, nine freshmen and a transfer sophomore to boot, there’s no sense in denying the obvious—this team has changed...
Even these performances couldn’t match the play of Curt Schilling. While a specially-made ankle boot was expected to aid the ailing Schilling in Game 6 of the ALCS, the blood soaking through Schilling’s sock as he threw told a different story. In an unprecedented procedure, his doctors stitched his skin to his bone—keeping the tendon in his ankle in place. Amazingly, Schilling performed his usual magic in pain, and he remarkably repeated this feat during Game 2 against St. Louis...
...buzzing burb it used to be. Blame that on two upstart areas-Changkat Bukit Bintang and Jalan Doraisamy (a.k.a. Asian Heritage Row)-that have taken the Malaysian capital by storm with a combination of restored colonial architecture and hip nightlife. There's plenty of decadent local color to boot-Changkat Bukit Bintang doubles up as love-hotel central...
This account of Bush’s time at this bourgeois boot camp comes from the people who knew him: his section mates and teachers from the class of ’75. At the Business School, each class of roughly 800 students is divided into ten sections of approximately 80 people. The first year, the section mates takes all of their classes together—and they get to know each other very well...