Word: hecticly
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...didn't When I got back to the Quad from a hectic day of turning in forms and seminar applications and fulfilling newspaper duties, it was after midnight. People don't walk alone down the dark streets behind the Quad that late at night. And people certainly can't convince other people to accompany them five blocks out of the way during the middle of David Letterman...
...says Sergeant Wes McBride of the Los Angeles County sheriff's department. "But there are not a lot of social programs out there to help them." For a 14-year-old living in a housing project run by a gang, it doesn't cut it to plead a hectic schedule when the guys come knocking. "If you're in the projects, getting out of a gang just isn't a smart thing to do," says J.W. Hughes, 22, a former member of a gang called the Black Disciples in Chicago who now counsels gang members. "You have to fear...
There is one more bonus for filmmakers living in Cambridge and the greater Boston area, according to Schwartz. The Charles River not only makes Cambridge a decent place to live and maintain a studio, Schwartz says, but also creates some tranquility in the hectic life of a producer...
Given Gorbachev's hectic "retirement" schedule, it is amazing that he found the time and tranquillity to write about his fall from power. But historians should beware of politicians who publish their memoirs too soon. Gorbachev's fascinating narrative makes no pretense of offering a scrupulously detailed or unbiased account of the events last year that transformed the modern world. There are no revelations here about what went on behind closed Kremlin doors. These are the passionate jottings of a man who is willing to acknowledge his mistakes but remains unreconciled to present-day realities. Gorbachev continues to believe...
...rendered only in French. Esprit de corps. Joie de vivre. Cherchez la femme. Croissant. They don't really work in translation. And that is true of fin de siecle. "End of the century" sounds flat and clunky. It doesn't carry the suggestion conveyed by the original of hectic decay and a sort of perfumed dying fall...