Word: elasticize
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Flexible he is. In fact, the former California governor who is now doggedly nipping at the heels of Bill Clinton, frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has been called downright elastic.
Harvard had trouble fielding balls on BU super-elastic turf field, and admittedly, a tough time facing BU pitcher Shannon Downey (a new transfer from junior college). Downey struck out eight batters and allowed only four hits.
The ponytail of the past, held back with an elastic band, has been joined by plaits, queues and thin, razor-cut hanks of eccentric design. Gary Margolis, 45, director of a counseling center at Vermont's Middlebury College, believes that hair has once again become a font of Zen expressionism...
"It's like being on the inside and looking through a peephole," he said. Olejarz's elastic art covers his entire body, from head to toe.
Home-school curriculum standards are even more elastic. Study programs usually are approved by local school boards, whose competence in the area may be minimal. In some cases, parents must submit detailed outlines of proposed courses. In others, school boards adopt a laissez-faire approach that takes on faith the...