Word: gig
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...good summer internships already snatched up, it’s time to get creative. Enter Papa John’s pizza and their Harvard-friendly job position: campus pizza rep. Merrily E. McGugan ’09, current holder of this sweet (and savory) title, takes her cheesy gig pretty seriously...
...Arcade Fire landed the dream gig for any new band: a few nights opening for U2. By appearances, it was an odd fit. Arcade Fire's seven members took the stage looking as if they just had just ridden out a hurricane in a trailer park. Instruments, hair and clothing were strewn everywhere. The set list, culled from their debut, Funeral, was full of songs about death played on accordion and mandolin. Later U2's the Edge would create endless spaces between guitar chords, while Bono drove metaphorical trucks through them, but somehow Arcade Fire's patchwork symphonies roared almost...
...your show-biz gig looks a lot like every job in America...
...billion dollars. That’s a pretty hefty sum. With that much money, you could buy one billion “Livestrong” Bracelets, or four million iPods (the 30 gig ones), or 54 million copies of Hillary Clinton’s book. You could also use that money to fight poverty, illiteracy, crime, to fund public education or national healthcare. Or you could use that money to fund TV ads about sex scandals...
...same vein, Kruger says that the manager gig proved to be less of a business experience, and more of a “real-world” experience...