Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Landes' criticism is not only valid, but eye-opening. Until now, opposition to the hotel plan, which would replace the Harvard Motor House, has centered around whether it is appropriate for the University to involve itself with a purely profit-making scheme. Landes points out something which has been overlooked, which is that the hotel would be built at the expense of academic concerns...
...common in the U.S. is the gold-card matchmaker for the affluent among those 43 million unmarried Americans between 18 and 44. "Across America," says San Francisco matchmaker Barbara Tackett, "there are people making $35,000 a year who will pay $3,500 to a matchmaker without blinking an eye...
...facilities, such as toilets, libraries and parks. Under pressure from the U.S., South African State President P.W. Botha charged that such policies would spark fresh pressure for international sanctions. Conservative Party leader Andries Treurnicht, Botha told a conference in Transvaal, "does not have to look his persecutors in the eye in the conference halls of the world...
...Michel went high-stepping down memory lane last week, he wound up in the brier patch. In a televised interview, the Illinois Republican embellished a fond recollection of Amos 'n' Andy -- the old radio show denounced by civil rights organizations for its stereotypical portrayals of blacks -- with an eye-rolling imitation of the character Kingfish. Then he allowed that "it's too bad" that schoolchildren can no longer don blackface and appear in minstrel shows. Finally he lamented the practice of changing racially offensive lyrics in songs like Ol' Man River, likening it to Soviet rewriting of history books. Said...
Factually speaking, I wasn't really in the Eliot House dining hall, but with Dan Quayle unable to wipe a smirk off his burnt flash-bulb of a face, and with George Bush--George Bush--finally able to look old Ron in the eye and say, "Well, pard...," it sure feels like I'm choking on a nation-wide haze of loose strands of woollen argyle and wafting fumes of Bean's Best Leather Oil. So I decided to get on a train. Heading north...