Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After eating more than my share (I surreptitiously undid the top button of my jeans) I was ready for the show to start. Conversation quieted as MIT sophomore Rosie Alegado came to the stage to perform a traditional opening chant called Oli Aloha. Her rich, deep voice gave shape to the complex and poetic chant, capturing everyone's attention and setting the tone for the hula dances to follow. It was clear, that this would not be one of those oft encountered theme party caricatures of Hawaiian culture where ti leaf skirts are traded for cellophane ones, where canned pineapple...
...fall in the shows: she attributes her success to her relaxed attitude towards the horses. "I like to think of the horses as my friends, they are like people. They have personalities, and they have good days and bad days. You can't just hop on and push a button and go." So people who like steering wheels, smooth throttles or an easy ride should probably stick to a different sort of mustang and leave the rough riding to the team...
...Gates in his article, that of Rose Mary Woods, Richard Nixon's devoted secretary. She risked ridicule to explain (untruthfully, of course) why there was an 18-and-a-half minute gap in the Oval Office tapes, conjuring a picture of her acrobatic and spastic self pressing the wrong button of the recording machine while trying to answer the phone. As she saw it, she would have been nowhere without Nixon, and she would not betray him in his darkest hour to his enemies...
Wednesday, March 18: Same old pain. My computer jockey lifestyle has flashed before me: the all-nighters for Computer Science 50 and philosophy papers; the 700 e-mails per month; the incessant clicking of the mouse button for web browsing. Frighteningly, this evening I started to have a painful tugging in one of the tendons of my right forearm. I did not write my tutorial paper for fear of doing further damage. I have begun to enlist friends and strangers in the computer lab to type messages...
That last comment is yet another confirmation of the first rule for listening to either politicians or Sabbath Gasbags: whenever one of them is about to tell you what "the American people" want or what "the American people" believe, you would be well advised to hit the mute button. As it turns out, a detailed explanation of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky seems to be the last thing "the American people" are demanding from President Clinton. At least for now, they seem to prefer viewing him as someone who is good at his job despite some personal flaws--more...