Word: fountaining
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...count in my last week's English 178x section yielded the following results: four ball-pointers, seven roller-ball-users and a lone pencil person. Hmmm. Is the roller-ball phenomenon a throwback from days of fountain pen prevalence? Perhaps proud owners cherish their Pilot Precises and their UniBall Deluxes for their decisive, permanent ink or for the little windows through which they can watch the ink go down and think, "boy, I sure write a lot!" The Harvard humanities notetaker comes to adore the flowing pages upon pages of intellectual-looking lecture notes...
...codgers played by Don Ameche, Hume Cronyn and Wilford Brimley begin taking furtive dips in a secluded swimming pool next door to their Florida retirement home. The pool, being secretly used by space aliens to rejuvenate companions left behind on a previous expedition, turns out to be a veritable fountain of youth. The senior citizens suddenly come alive: their arthritis disappears; their cancers dissolve; they disco into the night and regain their sexual prowess. Asked a film reviewer: "Wouldn't it be wonderful if decay were so easily washed away...
...toward Hope's end as well) when the hero's teenage daughter talks to him by his bedside for 12 hours and more, telling him about the time in Rome when her hands were sticky with gelato and he washed them in a fountain. "Dad," she says, "could you just squeeze my hand a little? Just so I'll know you're hearing me? I'm not rushing you or anything ..." McBain gets the daughter right, of course, and the bears and the tigers right too, as he has done for dozens of books and years...
...into the rarely played "Cumberland Blues." The set then took a turn for the worse with Weir's most recent tune "Easy Answers." Basically, this tune sucks. When I got out into the halls, I was hardly surprised to see a line at both the bathroom and the water fountain. I made it back in time, however, to catch the set closer, "Deal" which was solid, but not stellar...
...doubt that we're going to get anything meaningful this year." And next year will only be tougher, with more Republicans expected to be elected to Congress in November. Clinton's supporters console themselves by noting that he isn't likely to be tested on his stern, fountain-pen-wagging threat to veto any bill that fails to guarantee universal coverage. "At least," said a political adviser, "he probably won't have...