Word: doorknobs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That coat I have over there?” she says, pointing to a gray parka hanging on a doorknob. “Exeter bought it for me. It’s the only winter coat I have, and I still wear it. They knew I was in danger of dropping out and going to back to Houston, so they always made me feel like I was surrounded by a million people who cared...
...There are some things in this room you might want to avoid, like the doorknob. Ohmigod, you touched it?! [Frantically dials UHS] I’m sooo sorry...
...Gave a “presidential” banging to campus doorknob Vicky C. Hallett ’02. Everyone’s had a turn...
...vain, afflicted with bad habits and perpetually defending his sacred right to self-destruct in peace. Compared with him, Woody Allen is a rock of psychological stability. In one of his best essays, A Plague of Tics, Sedaris recounts his obsessive-compulsive youth as a ritual footstep counter and doorknob toucher. Unlike the urban neurotics of the Allen school, he's a boy from the suburbs whose pH balance has gone acidic. Sedaris is gloriously bratty. Current events and politics don't interest him; he's a born consumer with no regrets, whose highest concerns are his wardrobe...