Word: hook
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...thought this would let them off the hook, they were sadly mistaken. President Clinton pledged Thursday to hold the other Khmer Rouge leaders accountable for the 1975-79 genocide -- which, if all goes well, will mean the same kind of international tribunal intended for Pol Pot. More importantly, Cambodian government forces are closing in. ?We will persuade whoever can be persuaded to defect,? said Khieu Kanharith, a spokesman for the Phnom Penh regieme that already includes a number of Khmer Rouge turncoats. ?But Ta Mok, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, as well as Pol Pot, must be brought to trial...
...that we had been instructed on what we needed to do in order to find that meaningless someone to hook-up with, it was time to decide what, if any, passes we would buy. There was the $30 per person "Booze Cruise," which promised to get you as drunk as possible without inducing a coma and then dump you into the sea for some snorkeling. A friend who miraculously did not drown on this cruise later told me that there were no coral reefs where they had been taken to snorkel. I guess the event planners were hoping that people...
...paint Close applied was molecule-thin, spritzed on the painstakingly prepared gesso surface with an airbrush, in strict accordance with the grid to which Close enlarged the original photo. It suggested an obsessive involvement on the artist's part, but kept the viewer distant, with nothing sensuous to hook onto--unless you had a thing about freckles and wens. This idea of deadpan, photo-derived "objectivity" was much in the air at the time--a small movement, Photo-Realism, was one of the spin-offs from Pop Art--but nobody took it as far as Close, or with such riveting...
While the "hook-up" is a common means of expression, it's not the only indefinable term out there. In a survey conducted to determine Harvard's sentiments on the issue, the connotations of "hook up" and "make out" were the least certain. Students disagreed on which implied a more intimate encounter. Jessie R. Elzinga '01 considers making out further along the road of "getting it on," and hooking up "not so sexual...more about a relationship than physical activity." Larissa T. Jester '99 adds that "in the old days, making out meant something different--it was much more scandalous...
...survey displayed, opinions lean towards the "hook-up" as a more serious run-in. A belligerent P. Randy Seybold '01 demands that "making out means kissing. Period." Jimmy J. Meeks '01 enforces the more sexual meaning of "to hook up," saying that "hooking up definitely implies a horizontal position." And in addition to the general perception of "making out" as a lesser act, there is a certain stigma connecting the expression to the late 1950s and drive-ins, or as Sam T. Mouton '01 angrily declares, "Making out is so Junior High." Allison C. Connolly '01 agrees that...