Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reminds us that "Harvard is not the world," yet he fails to expand his perspective of Asian-Americans to include both the classmates he sees at Harvard and, for example, the many Asian youth trapped in Chinatowns and ghettoes, to whom inter-Asian gang warfare is oftentimes more a reality than SAT scores...
...Alabama, Wilson encountered an academicenvironment well-suited to his interests. Inaddition to studying under an influentialprofessor who served as his early mentor, Wilson"had the good fortune of becoming buddies with asmall gang of other budding entomologists." Hereceived a good education at Alabama--"evenwithout Nobel Laureates teaching me. We didn'thave a giant accelerator or a great laboratory ofbiochemistry, but we had the Alabama naturalenvironment and that was as good as anylaboratory...
...worse than anything from 1988. Stock Phrases .Quoted Ross Perot. .Otherwise, he managed to make Quayle sound eloquent. Did they put a metal plate in his skull in Vietnam? ."Raise your taxes..."--18 times. "Truth" or "trust--15 times ."Experience"--Four times. Family--7 times (including 2 references to gang families} .The word "change"--12 times ."Trickle-down"-- five times ."Bill Clinton and I..."--10 times ."Y'all"--Only once ."Our people right here"--Three times Humor Attempts .After about three minutes of bitter arguing between Gore and Quayle: "I can see right now the reason this nation...
...gang at Newsweek did, in a sense, write about themselves when they put together their list. Thirty-three of the people on it are writers, publishers or literary agents, or somehow involved in the publishing world. Some of them write controversial things, such as Robert Bly ("a minor poet" who became a big deal with Iron John) and others merely head up the monoliths of the literary world, such as Rebecca Sinkler at the New York Times Book Review...
...them is Keri Wingo, 17. A senior at Phillips this year, Keri is a bright, motivated kid who goes to school every day. He does not use drugs and is not in a gang. A varsity football and baseball player, he is hoping a scholarship to college will help him break free of the ghetto. "I want to get out of the projects," says the 6-ft. 2-in., 240-lb. lineman and outfielder. "I want to go to college. I want to make something of myself. I don't just want to be another victim of the ghetto...