Word: couchful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the grant gods do not favor student groups in search of funds, these undergraduate organizations often turn to their own alumni for a helping hand. It is the job of the Associate Director of the Harvard College Fund Nancy Couch to help student groups better target their alumni and their alumni dollars...
Recently the publicist for Monica's Story called the book "the essential document for closure," borrowing a psychotherapy term and suggesting that we're all about to get off Monica and Bill's couch, finally. Even Clinton got into the closure game. He insists he didn't watch the interview. At a news conference on Friday, he noted that Lewinsky had "paid quite a high price for a long time, and I feel badly for that." He wished her "a good life." Lewinsky, it seems, still has some work to do: "I just miss him so much right...
...trained his eyes to detect the slices of everyday life that might elude other. At age 12, Kelly remembers walking by a window, a ready-made frame, which enclosed what appeared to him to be three colored, abstracted shapes. Intrigued, he approached the window, only to discover a red couch, blue curtains and by all judgments an ordinary living room. Perplexed, he backed away slowly until the abstractions were seen again. Listening to Kelly relate this story, so touching in its nostalgic sincerity, was perhaps the best verbal testimony of his artistic integrity...
Carefully coifed and made-up, seeming quite at ease sitting on the couch opposite Barbara Walters, Lewinsky held her won for the extent of the two-hour discussion. She probably came off a little smarter than most of us expected her to be, but it was still a little eerie to see the intern, object of our president's affections and of the nation's disgust and ridicule for the last several months, giggling and chatting on national television. That's they way we handle things these days, though--nothing's really over until you see it deconstructed...
...exclusive interview. Her plan, aides say, was to secure agreement from the Albanian side within 48 hours, isolating the Yugoslavs and presenting Belgrade with a simple choice: join the agreement or be bombed. "I did a lot of castle shuttling today," she said, as she slumped into a couch during a negotiating break, clearly tired by the work. Boasted a proud staff member: "She's quarterbacking the Kosovo diplomacy." But a very difficult game lies ahead...