Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chickenhead envy," a phrase coined by the "hip hop feminist" Joan Morgan, the bandit that dogs sisters who work hard and feel that they deserve a salaried member of the male population only to feel that they often lose him to girls who make it their life goal to catch this type of man. There needs to be several songs about that, cause we are going to have to come to a compromise on issues that surround that debate...
While that's true, it's also true that a lot of my friends are going to be here this summer. Without too much work to do, I'll be able to catch up with people other than my blockmates, who I see every day multiple times...
...solve one mystery than he is plunged headlong into the next--a mysterious stranger collapses at his doorstep, a treasure map is discovered, or Professor Calculus is kidnapped (once again) by shady foreign spies. Caught in a world of constant motion, there's hardly a moment for him to catch his breath before setting off again on some new adventure. The last panel of a Tintin book rarely depicts anything other than a scene of departure: we bid farewell to the boy reporter as he steams away on an ocean liner, boards an airplane or blasts off into the night...
...students who actually were starting at noon their papers due at 5 p.m. We became, with reluctance, the degenerates who really did sleep through classes, waking up at 11:45 for a 10:00 class, then muttering "fuck it" before rolling over and arising just in time to catch the end of lunch. We became so consumed by this magazine that, give or take a few more issues, all five of us would have been out on our asses at the end of the term, looking for an internship as we tried to explain to confused editorial assistants what exactly...
...finals preparation, we are loaded down with research papers, problem sets and extra material not covered during the semester. In the space of a second, those two empty weeks are engulfed by a tidal wave of last-minute, high-pressure assignments. Papers are barely due in enough time to catch a night's sleep before sitting down for exams...