Word: busting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sometimes you go bust. For example, when the dispatcher tells you at 11 p.m. to walk ten blocks to catch the shuttle. Or when you're told to go outside and wait for an escort that takes 45 minutes to arrive (a.k.a. "right away"). Or when the car simply doesn't show...
...Daumier do this? By fixing his pincer gaze on the theatrics of the law. In the drawing known variously as For the Defense and The Lyric Advocate, the lawyer's court robes puff out in baroque splendor -- one thinks, perhaps not irrelevantly, of Bernini's bust of Louis XIV -- on the hot air of his rhetoric, as he gestures at the man in the dock, a Jean Valjean whose simian face betrays not the slightest comprehension of what is being said on his behalf. Emphasized by the dark mass of the lawyer's sleeve, the short distance between...
...fellows at the HRRC, however, saying, "this is not the kind of club we want to be in." Van, you and the others are in the club. I suppose it's possible that most HRAC people have retained their HRRC membership just in case the HRAC goes bust. (It seems a good time to mention that only 12 out of the 17 in attendance on Thursday actually signed up to be dues-paying members.) The confusion was furthered by Saurov Goswami '96, who said that "these are two groups that have entirely different goals." Entirely different goals? Perhaps...
...piling up outside the door and unwittingly threatening everyone else's fun by making enough noise to attract the attention of the House librarian, who lived across the courtyard and spent his weekend evenings with a microphone trained at lit windows in the hope of detecting a party to bust. "Out of the hallway!" I shouted from the doorway, where I remained for the better part of an hour, nursing a mug of Milwaukee's Best Extra Gold Draft Lite while hordes of first-years, who can smell keg beer from anywhere on campus, tramped up and down the stairwell...
...Science sections go through boom and bust cycles," she says. "Right now they're in a slump...