Word: hook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sensitive about the media's fixation on his former career as a house cleaner, which he describes as "my job and their hook." In a Rod Roddy voice he relates one uncomfortable appearance on a talk show whose host cackled, "Our guest is an author and...get this...he cleans houses...
...capacity for indifference and criminal behavior dwells in all of us, but evil can thrive only under evil leadership. Amid all this finger pointing, who is left off the hook? Adolf Hitler. LISA WALLERSTEIN Livermore, California...
...onto the fast track to stardom. The song was written for Patsy Cline, who died before she could record it, but it seems made for Rimes. The melody is thick and generous, and even if you're not into country, when Rimes' wild-berry-sweet voice yodels through the hook-filled chorus--"blooOOooOOoo"--you feel like putting on a cowboy hat and line dancing...
...think most other houses have a head pre-med advisor," Hsu says. "What Adams House does is hook you up with a personal pre-med advisor, usually a student at Harvard Medical School...
...night stand. One piece of lore that now surrounds Datamatch is of a couple who met their first year through the service and who, now seniors, are still together. As this true tale implies, the ideal of the program is not to add another five names to your random hook-up list, but to find the person with whom you hope to be truly committed--in the end, a highly conservative mission...