Word: enjoyes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...catnip to him: aggro, solipsism, tension, repetition, torpor and bad jokes that may have come out of a misanthrope's fortune cookie. Boredom too. Try watching a fuzzy tape of Nauman overstretching a simple phallic pun by very slowly "manipulating" a long fluorescent tube. You don't so much enjoy this show as endure it; you get through it. Then, in the coffee shop, you peruse the catalog and find such hyperbolic drivel as this, by co-curator Kathy Halbreich: "Like the great 17th century metaphysical poet John Donne, who, faced with a world of expanding information and concomitant chaos...
Which is not to say that there is no pleasure to be had from these references; any audience likes to be stroked. There is no question that Marler is witty, and fellow English majors will no doubt enjoy jokes like "Discuss any references to aquatic mammals in Moby Dick." But the pleasure we get from these kinds of jokes is like the pleasure at hearing Marler name three well-known English professors as his examiners; much of the monologue would be of little or no interest to anyone outside Harvard, if not outside Harvard's English department...
...some self-generated speculation that he'd run for governor of Indiana, Dan Quayle has decided that downward mobility is not in his political future. "The only office I am interested in is running for the presidency," the former vice president told C-SPAN today. "I'm going to enjoy Indiana, going to enjoy my family and see what happens." Quayle had set himself a Memorial Day deadline to decide on a GOP gubernatorial...
...most important lesson Tom taught was the one that began last November, when he announced online that he had been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. In a typically understated message, Tom bravely declared that he would enjoy what remained of his life while doing all he could "to marshal the army of good cells to enter into battle with the army of bad cells...
...ambivalent (sometimes adolescent) struggle to use his talent as coin to buy his freedom while keeping Luce's patronage. As White wrote of himself in the third person much later: "He believed he could have it both ways-that he could say what he wanted to say, and yet enjoy the comfort and benefits of the parent organization that disagreed...