Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between promising to open up a restaurant and "make things work out," something seems to go wrong, Cocaine, nearly as American as divorce, enters the scene and blasts Mama Livingston out of reality. Jake and Brian meet Sam's strange friends, find Mom and Sam crashed out on the couch after some coke blizzard and learn that Sam is moving in. "Just like that?" Jake asks. "We live here...
...field and on paper we were a better team than Northeastern, " said Couch Edie Mabrey. "I think se played very well...
...slight smile, the soft, husky Reagan voice. Almost gentle. And yet a bugle call of sorts for 1984. Reagan's enthusiasm grew as he got into his subject. His color heightened. He leaned forward from his couch and worked his hands. Far below his 26th-floor hotel room, the hubbub of the Republican National Convention was rising in anticipation of his acceptance speech that night. Reagan already was far beyond that in his mind, building "America's party" and an "opportunity society...
Retton seemed fated for gymnastics since she was a toddler in Fairmont, W. Va. "I was one of those hyper kids, always jumping up and down on the couch and breaking things," she says. In self-defense her parents sent her off to an acrobatics class. At first, she went to the gym just once a week, but, she says, "I just got better and better, and so the people who ran the acrobatics class decided to start a gymnastics club so I could train to see if I could keep improving." By 14, she knew she could strike...
...suffering "became a habit," theorizes Harvey. "He not only argued the problem of suffering, he suffered the problem of argument. And that is incurable." As for the comforters, at least they "kept him company. And they took turns as analyst. Job was like the patient on the couch." But, Harvey concludes, the Book of Job teaches us "the futility of friendship in times of trouble.. . Friends mean well, or make as if they do. But friendship itself is made for happiness...