Word: coatings
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It’s because there’s a conscious effort to not seem so damn Harvard. So we throw on this thick coat of casual indifference, and start acting like we were back in freshman year of high school wearing a Ben Folds Five T-shirt pretending not to be waiting for the schoolbus. We don’t want to be that guy in the Moral Reasoning section who begins his jabberings with some crap like “I thoroughly doubt people have read this book, but I feel like Richard Rorty, in his seminal work...
...father suggested he try to get a group together. The Saturday after the school notice went up, six or seven Mount Temple students appeared in the Mullen kitchen. "Some people could play," Mullen remembers. "The Edge could play. Adam [Clayton] just looked great. Big bushy hair, long caftan coat, bass guitar and amp. He talked like he could play, used all the right words, like 'gig.' Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic...
...SARAH HUGHES, THIS WEEK COVERS HUGHES' REMARKABLE GOLD-MEDAL PERFORMANCE. Last summer when I showed up in a sweater at the Ice House in Hackensack, N.J., where Sarah Hughes trains, her coach Robin Wagner took one look at me and shook her head. "I've got a coat and some gloves in my office; you'll need those." She was right. I spent hours watching Wagner and Hughes break down the bane of Hughes's existence, the Lutz jump. Judges had penalized Hughes repeatedly for taking off on the wrong edge, and as painstakingly frustrating as it was, Hughes practiced...
...journalist's line of work. Ask the young roomful, instead, whether they would be willing to risk their lives to cover extreme situations in faraway places and report the truth, and the best in the room will get a gleam in their eyes--a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch...
...satisfy diehard fans, Burberry Barbie—who sports a plaid kilt, scarf and bag and is “classic in every sense of the word”—is available for $88 from www.dollsanddarlings.com. A pattern once appropriate only on Grandfather’s coat has quickly become a popular bikini design over the past several years. “Getting our bikini on Kate Moss cut the average age of our customers 30 years in one fell swoop,” Rose Marie Bravo, the woman behind the magical Burberry transformation, recently told Time Magazine...