Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hole as "up the stairs, around the dining room table and over the dog." The enormity of his desire was somewhat mitigated by his small stature, but Leonard delighted in beating opponents who far outdrove him. Because Leonard rarely loses his composure, tour friend Brad Faxon calls him a flat-liner. That trait is, in one way, a gift from his father and his golfing buddies at Royal Oaks--they routinely threw tees and taunts at the kid just as he would swing...
...should never have looked at its teeth. For the past 15 minutes, this 6-ft. tiger shark has been hog-tied alongside our small flat-bottomed motorboat, tossing in choppy seas two miles off Waikiki Beach, in Honolulu. Carl Meyer, a graduate student at the University of Hawaii, has been busy the whole time--slipping a noose around the powerful tail, flipping the shark on its back to put it into a stupor, measuring it this way and that, then shouting the numbers to his colleagues on the larger boat that bobs in the waves nearby...
...enough to replace their former undergraduate scruffiness with low-budget chic. Otherwise, their work makes them vaguely restless in ways that are scarcely worth discussing. This is not to say that frequent flashbacks to the bad old days--when the pair lived, squabbling and self-obsessed, in a rundown flat above a Chinese takeout restaurant--are finally any more conclusive. Or that the girls' chance encounters with figures out of that past--a slick, careless lover they once shared; a weird, enormous former roommate now lost to schizophrenia (and played with great and tender ferocity by Mark Benton)--are particularly...
Yogi? Casper? Flat Top? Scooby Doo? The naming of these rocks and formations [SPACE, July 21] seems shrewd as a public relations ploy, but flies in the face of naming heavenly bodies after illustrious figures of myth, science and literature. Will the first earthly Mars walker who greets these familiar objects on site at Ares Vallis be likely to record for posterity the query "Dr. Boo-Boo, I presume"? Is this a failure of our educational system? Did the ingenious individuals who are involved in this project not avail themselves of the liberal-arts curriculums at their distinguished universities...
...Bill Clinton's favorite places for lunch when the Great Scarfer was Governor. I somehow even missed its name. Given Trie's eagerness to please, though, I suspect he chose a name designed to make some of those Arkansas legislators from places like Mount Ida and Ash Flat feel as comfortable as they could in an Oriental setting--maybe something like the Jade Goober...