Word: couchful
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These days when you look at Chase, you don't at first notice any sign of what happened to him that year--not the fall he took while jumping on the couch nor the paralyzing blow to the neck as he hit the wooden armrest. More and more, Chase can do the kinds of things any other 4-year-old can do. He can walk, albeit with the aid of trekking poles. He can hold a cup and pick up an M&M. He's regained at least some sensation...
...spring break revelry to a whole new level this weekend when he entered a room in Eliot that was not his own. Instead of exiting gracefully, he did the next best thing: he took off all his clothes and passed out, naked, on the unlucky room’s couch. Needless to say, the Eliotites did not appreciate this gesture of intimacy and friendship…Aux armes, artistes! After being refused entry to a small soiree at the Signet Friday night, two ne’er-do-wells registered their disappointment in a manner befitting Harvard?...
...Keret's real subjects are Israel's teenage soldiers turned unsettled couch potatoes, the 20-something slacker veterans who live in the twin shadows of the Holocaust and their state's martial heritage. For all his imaginative pyrotechnics, Keret's aim is engage his reader with the everyday oddness of Israel. "I would call it subjective realism," he says of his bizarre storylines. "I am trying to show things the way they feel." Overwhelmingly, in Keret's fiction, things feel edgy. Throughout Missing Kissinger, there is the sense of the dark slap-shtick of a country where, through dumb luck...
While the Crimson was stuck on the couch and in the stands during last year’s tourney, its Ancient Eight dominance in 2007 punched its automatic ticket to the Big Dance. Since dropping a 61-53 decision at Yale January 26, Harvard is riding an 12-game winning streak...
...party. He never wanted people to give him the luxury treatment. He hated that I had to drive him to work at his Brooklyn newspaper through 50 minutes of bumper-crunching BQE traffic whenever he wanted to go to work, and he always tried to get off of the couch by himself before extending his pudgy fingers to whoever was standing nearest. So we called it an engagement party.A bewildering series of events converged to make this engagement party possible. My brother and his fiancé somehow got an extra two weeks off from their non-stop theater jobs...