Word: hallway
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Just outside the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, there is a long, empty hallway strewn with several plants along the side. Dropped off when they were struggling for survival, the orchid, aloe, and spider plants have now been nursed back to health by the center’s staff...
After the Clinton-impeachment affair (or the Clinton-affair impeachment?), this drama argued that politics could be noble. Fast too--with the rapid dialogue and the hallway walk-and-talks, the staff of President Bartlet (Martin Sheen, below with John Goodman) had espresso in their veins. Wonky, sexy and high-minded, the show believed that romanticism in the defense of liberty was no vice...
...many other internecine battles, it can be hard to tell where the whining stops and the real problems begin. The CDC was due for a major overhaul, and it's human nature--even among scientists--to resist change. What started off as hallway grumbling, however, has grown into an ugly public ruckus, thanks to an unofficial employee blog www.cdcchatter.net and a few well-directed Freedom of Information requests from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
...advice. Take, for example, Oz’s approach to combatting those heavy eyelids that hit during mid-afternoon: “If you find yourself falling asleep in class, ask to go to the bathroom and then do a few jumping jacks and stretches in the hallway to get the blood flowing throughout your body.” And if, after reading the chapter “Step Three, Get Started: Healthy Eating 101,” you feel that you have forgotten some of Oz’s useful suggestions, fear not for they will be repeated again...
...Rush Limbaugh. Then he walked away from a $1.7 million contract with Fox News to become the most famous White House press secretary in history. Even in the White House's West Wing, where restrictions on visitors ensure that no one is just a tourist, his appearance in the hallway can elicit a bubble of giggly Beatlemania; I heard a visiting VIP yelp, "Omigod, I just saw Tony Snow!" His fame--invariably, his colleagues describe him as a "rock star"--has unavoidably changed the very nature of the job. He is more than a mouthpiece...