Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truly smutty about Nerve, except maybe the plethora of darkened "provocative" crotch shots. All of the writing tends toward the literate side, but it's boring. The personal revelations are clinically detached and dull ("I walked around naked...I had sex in a car..." and so on, making you expect "I had sex in an outhouse...when I was 12 I masturbated with a stapler" and so forth), and the other intellectual material is less than insightful. The most interesting article on the site at present: Dmitri Nabokov's essay on copyright laws and his father's Lolita...
...Looking back on the robbery, the roommates have different perspectives. Stevens, the hardest hit of the trio, was the most affected by the robbery: "It's nothing I would expect to have happen, especially here. To have it happen in the first month of school, it jars you." Gibson says he "felt vulnerable for three days afterward" but doesn't any longer. Rubin, a native New Yorker, was the least affected of the three. "It is a little unsettling to think that someone was in our room while we slept, but I still feel safe so long as we take...
...with an offer to collaborate on a Web site, Deflem says, but he refused. "They first barge in telling me how to do my job. Do you know what it took me to get this job? I didn't get this job because I'm a pretty boy. You expect their teachers to do their jobs, and not rely on companies run by university drop-outs...
...expectations are very similar to last year," said Coach Katey Stone, the ECAC Coach of the Year. "We don't expect to be a polished machine the first month of the season but we do expect everyone to work hard and do the best that they...
...Expect the most muted of fireworks. Al Gore and Bill Bradley finally get to face off live on television Wednesday night, but in a game of Horse rather than one-on-one. Rather than hold a direct debate, the two largely centrist policy wonks will appear side by side at a Democratic party town meeting. "The real excitement," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty, "will be the degree to which they're drawn into interacting." And if Gore's pregame trash-talking is anything to go by, he?s ready for a professorial rumble - in the weeks preceding the face...