Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here so much to enjoy the honors of the Pudding Pot as to exorcise the ghost of Sherman McCoy [the character Hanks portrayed in "Bonfire of the Vanities"] who attended Yale. In fact, I'm trying to visit all the Ivy League schools to pay homage somehow to them...Is Cornell an Ivy League school?" Hanks quipped...
...until recently, however, Hanoi barely received as much as a fresh coat of paint. Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam was too busy, running first the French out of the North and then the Americans out of the South. Neglect reduced many of the great ocher villas to crumbling ghost houses, often with electric wires dangling from broken windows...
Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, for instance, sayshe has no preference between the ghost of HarvardSquare past and the reality of Harvard Squarepresent...
...bitch about. And as Grant misses "those nice days when I was the only conservative on the scene," many radio rightists betray a truculent nostalgia for the old foes who became their roadkill: Cuomo, Howard Metzenbaum and the man from Arkansas who roams the White House like the Ghost of Clinton Past...
...even say his monomania. His singular stanzaic shapes, his deliberately bumpy meters, his weird triple rhymes (frowardly/untowardly) all enliven and diversify his subject matter, which otherwise would be claustrophobically narrow. The number of his poems that concern romantic triangles, with, typically, one of the three parties represented by a ghost, must surely run into the hundreds...