Word: goober
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...businesses: Harvard Square was mobbed with shoppers last weekend. I, too, was casually perusing some stores. I spotted Steven A. Franklin ‘10 in a bright red Santa costume, soliciting donations to the Salvation Army. Steven was a really nice guy, but he could be such a goober sometimes. Franklin’s incessant bell-ringing attracted little to no attention from passers-by. Everyone was much more taken with the one-woman protest going on just down the street. Never afraid to add some spectacle to her fierce displays of idealism, Maya D. Simpson...
...pleasure of TV on DVD is getting to revisit another era--sometimes two eras at once. The Jetsons Season 1 (Warner Home Video; $64.92) is as much about New Frontier 1962 as about the distant future. Its ditzy slapstick is like the peanut-butter-and-jelly mix Goober Grape--if you didn't love it as a kid, you're not going to acquire the taste as an adult--and the pop-culture gags (like rock star Jet Screamer and his hit Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah) have not aged well. But the animation is still a classic...
...masochist," said Don Fletcher, 57, a telecommunications consultant who was asked over coffee at the mall if he was tuned in to the campaign. Kind of tough to get caught up in it, others said, when one candidate has the burden of proving he's not a goober in a nice suit and the other is forever trying on personalities the way some people try on shoes...
...masochist," said Don Fletcher, 57, a telecommunications consultant who was asked over coffee at the mall if he was tuned in to the campaign. Kind of tough to get caught up in it, others said, when one candidate has the burden of proving he's not a goober in a nice suit, and the other is forever trying on personalities the way some people try on shoes...
...Jade Goober, Web Hubbell has just finished his lunch with an all-vegetable dish listed on the menu as Bubba's Delight. Trie, following standing instructions, has given him the check plus three carbon copies suitable for submission. At the next table, a waitress impatiently taps a pencil on her pad as James McDougal changes his mind again and again...