Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pennsylvania could make a surprise run for the title. Columbia may finally make a bid for a place in the top half of the division. And in this year, the 25th anniversary of the 29-29 Harvard win, who knows if Restic or Cozza can turn back the clock and capture another title...
...English press has been quoting disappointed Americans and Japanese who felt entitled to a look at the Queen: at least Mickey Mouse, one kid complained, was always present in his Magic Kingdom of Disneyland. You can't expect her to pop out like a cuckoo on a clock, but there isn't even a painting of her on view -- only her ancestors. The burden falls on Queen Victoria, whose portrait en famille by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (who was to her and Prince Albert what Edwin Landseer was to their many dogs) must be the single most sentimental piece of kitsch...
...dutiful. Mahoney's impressions of everyday life, by contrast, are as bracing as May mornings in Corofin, the West Clare town where she lived alone in a darkling castle worthy of the Addams family. She is puzzled by the chronic lateness of the Irish, for whom a 7 o'clock appointment can mean any time at all. She delights in their colorful nicknames -- Mickey the Bridge for a man who lives near one. Irish men are often regular churchgoers, she notes, even though they might lurch into the pews for a Saturday-evening Mass roaring drunk...
...latest plutocrat is O'Brien, 30, whose new show -- he calls it Late Night with Question Mark -- is racing against the clock to invent itself. All right, sauntering against the clock. In Rockefeller Center, young creative types lounge about in pullovers and shorts. It might be downtime at the frat house; no one displays the panic expected of kids who must start, on Sept. 13, manufacturing five fresh hours of TV each week...
...final shot at becoming a true-blue. Harvard literati. (I just won't get another chance to name-drop Joseph Andrews and Walker Evans without someone throwing a brick at my head, will I? And most frighteningly of all, somewhere in the back of my mind, the thesis clock has started to tick--freedom will soon come crashing to an end, and long nights of genuine scholarship await. Sometime between now and unemployment, I've got to squeeze in some education...