Word: gaspe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After a long Monday night of raging at Z-Square, you stumble back to your dorm and realize you have a response paper due in a few hours. What to do? You have to do the reading and (gasp!) think about it to write a response paper, right? Think again, Poindexter: here are a few simple guidelines that will have you churning out response papers faster than the e-recruiting process turns out d-bags...
...perfect figure rises from the sea--lubricated and lubricious, like Ursula Andress in the first James Bond movie, Dr. No--and the audience lets out a little gasp of sexual admiration, the voyeur's version of applause. But this body belongs to Daniel Craig, the new 007, and with his Sisyphus shoulders and pecs so well defined they could be in Webster's, it's no surprise that the camera lingers lovingly to investigate the topography of his splendidly buff torso. If Craig spends more time with his shirt off than all previous Bonds combined, it's to make...
...squatting students spans the other. On nice days, a few students will sit on the steps of Memorial Hall to eat. This is a far cry from the days of Loker, which—dreary as it may have been—gave students the chance to (gasp) sit at a table to eat lunch. Now University Hall says that the Queen’s Head Pub will not be complete until sometime in the spring, delaying the day that Fly-By can return to Loker...
Secondly, if Harvard students as a collective started to—gasp!—talk about something substantive, it might even make the campus a more enjoyable and social place. This entails a risk, I know, and I myself can easily picture dining hall conversations gone bad—“NO, we shouldn’t put an embargo on North Korea! I hate you! I am going to cancel our facebook friendship like right...
...dictates how to dress on a first date ("All men will weaken at a bit of slinkiness"), how best to gossip (Rule No. 1: "Watch your back"), and what to do when encountering celebrities ("Exploit their insecurities, butter them up, but keep it brief"). It also gives advice on--gasp!--how to cheat on your husband or boyfriend ("Cover your tracks"). Um, isn't this tacky or even a bit--dare we say it--déclassé? "We decided it was time for a bit of a change," says editor Jo Aitchison. "Etiquette will be a survival guide for modern life...