Word: glare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During this past finals period, while trudging to Lamont with a sourcebook in my backpack and a lit cigarette in one hand (not that I smoke), I paused to glare at the closest thing to me--in this case, a kiosk. Even during this hibernation period of student activities, it was aglow with neon flyers. They all irked me. But what almost sent me over the edge was the way Jennifer Love Hewitt's face smirked at me from one of them...
...bombing. "Portions of the building have been evacuated at certain points," mentioned one guard I-refuse-to-give-my-name-because-I-am-security-and-I-have-to-take-extra-special-precautions. Nevertheless, take a look at the Biggest building in Boston if you can just escape the evil glare of the guards the "top of the hub" in the evening is a pretty romantic spot...
...Rockefeller and Carnegie built the industrial age, then Morgan (1837-1913) financed it. The most imposing personage ever to bestride Wall Street--his nickname was Jupiter--Morgan had a thunderclap voice, a ferocious glare and a grotesquely disfigured red nose that, he once ruefully joked, had become "part of the American business structure." Where Rockefeller and Carnegie endured hardscrabble boyhoods, Morgan came from a well-to-do Hartford, Conn., family, and his appetite for bosomy women, enormous yachts (his 300-ft. Corsair lent him a piratical image) and exquisite art was legendary...
...story began too early on a Sunday morning, as an unwitting Harvard undergrad staggered from her room into the light. With eyes squinting at the glare she acknowledged her roommate and moved on, then looked up and realized that the blonde person standing in her common room was not her roommate. In fact she had never seen the girl before in her life. "Hi, I'm Maggie, Celeste's friend from home." The poor undergrad searched her memory and found remnants of a conversation with Celeste about a girl who had invited herself for a three-day weekend...
Communication is key when trying to keep in touch with your boyfriend. E-mail at least five times a day to let your sweetie know how everything is going. He'll feel a lot better knowing that you are in your room basking in the glare of the computer screen rather than reveling in the attention of new and interesting boys. E-mail is the perfect medium to instantly express the poetry of your love. With lengthy epistles focused solely on the beautiful memory of your torrid adolescent affair, you can remind him what he's missing. Telling...