Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...section," back in sophomore year. You can win section by persuading the TA that you actually did the reading better than anyone else, or in a much more profound, meaningful way--by singlehandedly attacking the 15 other people and what they all think. I only won one section the cool way, in my sophomore history tutorial. But that...
...remember that the "in" or "cool" people were those who were laid back. Enthusiasm was gauche. There were few passionate causes and in, direct contrast to the apparent college climate of the 80s, we certainly were not driven. Look...
...sure, a sentimental fantasy with just enough wild-party footage to keep the Porky's crowd from nodding off. But for teens in search of tips on language, behavior and all the right moves, Sixteen Candles functions as a therapeutic documentary, a sort of survival kit of '80s cool. And for the rest of us, it offers a fine old time at the movies...
Erica's version of events is supported by the John children. Says Timothy, 27: "Mother is working hard to hold the family together and do what is best." Harry's children attending the trial are cool toward their father, a tall, gaunt figure wearing cropped hair and a baggy gray suit. Last week he tried to call over his daughter Paula, 25. "Why now," she audibly asked, with hardly a glance at her father, "with all the reporters here?" At another moment Erica murmured aloud, "Poor Harry doesn't know what's going on." Harry, in an interview, recalled...
...ongoing struggle in the countryside remains the principal concern of Washington, which has seemed decidedly cool toward the Aquino government. On his way to meet the new President two weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz declared, without much conviction, "Well, I assume she's in control." Nonetheless, the Administration has been increasingly impressed with the calm authority of the former homemaker, and recently pledged an additional $150 million in aid to Manila. "She's surprising us in some ways," said one Washington official. "She also seems clearly preferable to any of the alternatives." That much has been underlined...