Word: cherubic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With his bitterest rivals flanking him at the witness table and the ornery Hatch on the dais, Gates will take a lesson back to Redmond: Washington, D.C., is full of lawyers just as tough as Microsoft's. The bully act doesn't work here. But a cherub-faced software salesman with $40 billion? He ought to do just fine...
...chamber orchestra plays from the balcony behind the audience, directing attention to the sparsely furnished stage. The set consists of a wooden platform with a few copper colored and terra cotta vessels, a pair of bronze-like columns and a garden statue cherub...
Mary, our checker, calls you by name and sometimes adds "cherub" or "buttercup." At special meals, Sandy, Anabela and the rest of the staff think up decorations for the dining hall that make it look like a themed playground. First-years come up only for a meal but they stay a long time, lounging on the grass and talking to upperclass students about good rooms (all of them) and asking house residents for a straightforward definition of a 'lambing'. There never...
...solidarity in the class of 1997 by making the Union more attractive to the locationally challenged. They are also trying to preserve the quality of life in the Quad houses by reducing the influx of first-years; there is nothing worse than seeing the last Chickwich taken by a cherub-faced kid talking about how excited he is to take his first college exam...
Fantasies seep into facts. Entertainment and journalism drift back and forth across the borders. The bicameral arrangement of culture and politics dissolves. The baby of the (nonexistent) Murphy Brown flies out of its cradle and hovers like an illicit pink cherub over the American presidential succession...