Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chris: The buns at Fenway are a lot better. They look like they've been cut from a loaf...
...certain mystique, but in the end, the love of singing and performing is each what bands together the dozen young Harvard men who croon as Harvard's resident lounge lizards. Something there is in human beings that loves to sing. Insofar as it's a way to cut loose, to release the energies of the imagination, it's a force for good. To the extent, however, that it's a question of showing off, of loving the sound of one's own voice in the truest sense, of demanding applause and cheers from the rest of the human race...
...audience are wrinkled and droopy, hardened by years of not being the last-finishing nice guy, and these charming young men are naive, even as they sing of "sadomasochism," to the real tensions that will someday entangle their own lives. It is refreshing for these corporate clients, seeking to cut loose and shed a little of their hostility over wine or vodka, to see that life can still be fun without an asterisk at the end. The Kroks know that they are charming, but they are, for the most part, just looking for applause and the invitation to sing...
Remembering his own years at Harvard--and the classes he cut--Ballmer guessed that students would be much more likely to watch videos of skipped classes if this kind of convenient time-saving technique were at their fingertips...
Rudenstine took the unusual measure of personally writing letters requiring employment data from the deans of Harvard's schools and also cut short personal obligations to attend labor meetings...