Word: boundingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Experience: minor in education from Dartmouth University, masters in education and public administration from Northeastern University, former classroom teacher and director of education for the Department of Youth Services, director of the Upward Bound program...
...Cajuns are as different from New Orleanians as New Orleanians are from Protestants in the rural north. Yet all Louisianians share something that sets them apart -- at least in their own minds -- from other Americans. They are bound, in the words of Bill Lynch, a former newspaperman who now serves as the state's inspector general, "by our unforgiving history." It is a paradoxical chronicle of political corruption and roguishness, of fabulous oil wealth and red-clay poverty, of exile and immigration, cultural blending and racial divides...
...between the Communists and the Nationalists that embroiled the country in the '30s and '40s, or the epic struggle against Japanese invaders, or the chaotic Cultural Revolution. Notions of the past exist, but when tales are told they are often without context. Exotic ancestresses mince through the background on bound feet; pig-tailed great-grandfathers take to ship for lands of greater promise. What was it that they fled...
...first book, Dennis Levine's Inside Out: An Insider's Account of Wall Street, is junk, bound. Don't waste your time. Instead, to learn about Levine and Ivan Boesky and particularly about Mike Milken, read James B. Stewart's spectacular Den of Thieves. I read it because, like most people, I wasn't entirely sure. Was Milken, though guilty, the victim of a witch hunt over largely technical violations? Were he and his faithful servants, like Arthur Liman (for the defense) and Ken Lerer (for the p.r. machine), the ones I should root for? Hah! For the first time...
...know about Elvis, but Walter Mitty lives. You can find him poised atop a 7-ft. platform swinging a big stick at a muscle-bound giant with a name like Laser or Nitro. Or swooping through the air on a bungee cord 15 ft. above the ground, trying to master a kind of aerial basketball. Sound like Mitty's fantasies have got a little outrageous? Obviously, you haven't seen American Gladiators, the syndicated television show on which ordinary, albeit very physically fit, people compete in athletic events against a squad of professional male and female athletes and body builders...