Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burly man is a member of the Union for the Homeless, or so button proclaims on his thick woolen hat. He's from another century--a classic lumpenproletarian. He belongs on the barricades in the French of Russian Revolution. His heavy baritone grates with enthusiasm about the Union of the Homeless, whose slogan is "homeless, not helpless...
...predominantly male population of Business School students spends a great deal of time trying to meet women, students say. Garbed in sweatshirts and button-down Oxfords, the students frequent the Boathouse Bar, and the more ambitious ones travel even farther to the Hong Kong...
...stories! The first major storm, according to Janis, "built and built and built and lasted 24 hours. There's nothing you can do 300 miles from a coast but button it up and bob like a cork until it blows over. I don't like weather like that, but I don't panic. Things break all over the place, and you have to find a port and get them fixed...
Other students are less tense, but just as determined. "If I do badly, at least on a computer game, I can hit the reset button if I'm doing badly," says Kyle O. Prioleau '89 of Eliot House. However he refuses to face the psychological implications of his actions: "I think I have a power complex--yeah, right...
...stage." He often suggested that he enjoyed special spiritual grace, and some fans concluded he had faith- healing powers. But when he died at home last week after a brief hospitalization, he was best known as a synonym for glorious excess. After an aborted attempt in 1958 at a button-down, close-cropped, low-key look, Liberace came to understand that in the heartland where he found his audiences, less remained less and only more was more...