Word: bumming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following Pope John Paul II's recent trip to the new world, I'm beginning to think that Sinead O'Connor got a bum...
...former Secretary of State and the bum rap on POWs...
...feeble, lacking the iconic power and brilliantly felt color of the earlier work. By 1946, for all intents, Johnson's life as an artist was over. He made a return trip to Denmark but sank into insanity in Copenhagen, where the police picked him up as a grimy street bum lugging burlap sacks of his own -- to them, weird-looking -- paintings...
...Harvard life. The socalled "comp" etition was virtually nonexistent. If you want to join some organization and put in a little bit of time, then you almost always get into them (unless you try for some twisted, elitist, social clubs like the often unfunny Lampoon). You get to bum around doing whatever you like with minimal responsibility. No ruthless cuts. Harsh, extracurricular competition is one of the bigger myths at this place (beating out such whoppers as sex at Widener Library and oppressive political correctness...
Hepburn still swims, "to be irritating," all year off Long Island Sound but points to a bum ankle that forces her to crawl over the rocks to get out of the water. "Imagine the obituary, actress drowns in six inches of water." Only for a second do I imagine this and ask, generally, about dying. "No fear. I love to sleep. I picture it as just a good long sleep." She likes being alone. "I have such a great family that I haven't had much need for friends. Guests come for dinner at 6 and have to leave...