Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more thing, though--there's a pretty good chance it will be rainy or foggy when you visit. It's rainy and foggy for most of March on Nantucket. (That's why the island is called "the grey lady" by some.) So bring your rain gear and good cheer. Hey, it may be raining, but you're in Nantucket, not Cambridge. Enjoy the escape...
...platoon sergeant, also in PT gear, hollers "First platoon, make a head call!" In perfect unison, all 14 of us respond accordingly: "FIRST PLATOON MAKE A HEAD CALL, AYE AYE PLATOON SERGEANT!" And after he barks "MOVE!", we answer, again in unison, with a motivated grunt and shuffle off to the bathroom to begin...
...what seems like half a heartbeat, I'm out of my rack (in civilian terms, bed) standing at attention in the hallway in PT (physical training) gear, awaiting further instruction...
...winter swung into full gear this year, I began pulling out my itinerary more and more just to reassure myself that it existed. With each new foot of snow that fell, I thought of a new strategy to procure maximum beads at the parades. With each bad Harvard Dining Services meal, I thought of the craw-fish and seafood gumbo that awaited me in the Big Easy...
...Amazing, a new video from rave-rockers Aerosmith, a pimple-faced lad summons up an image of himself on his home computer and magically erases those zits. Then he ups the ante. Feeding the computer an image of his dream woman and, donning the mandatory virtual-reality gear, he steps into a higher, hornier hyper reality where all his lusts are gratified. He and his girlfriend ride off on a motorcycle, make cyberlove, hitchhike a ride on a biplane and sky surf off the wing. If there's a rock 'n' roll virtual heaven for teenage testosterosis, this might...