Word: inglis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defining moments of my first year came while sitting in one of my first Undergraduate Council meetings. During a vote, the then president hovered over a group of timid first-years and told us to "show some f***ing accountability," in other words, to vote the way he wanted us to. That was a very different council, but even up to a year ago, the council was a highly politically charged and politically divisive place. Conservatives had a special area of the room in which they sat religiously. The most progressive students on the council did as well. Almost every...
...tend to walk around these days saddled with so much stuff that I waddle like a plumber. Beeper, cell phone, personal digital assistant, laptop--sometimes I fantasize about Velcro-ing all my digitalia to bandoliers crisscrossing my chest: the Geek Rambo. Hasta la vista, baby, I say, dropping to my knees, ripping free a cell phone and speed-dialing a pizza...
...course, the man at the top should be a model citizen. But one must not go too far in judging a public man by his private life. Besides the risk of mak-ing ourselves ridiculous in giving too much importance to a commonplace matter, there is the terrible danger of sinking into extreme puritanism--that is fundamentalism. JEAN-PIERRE CAUSSE Sete, France...
...terms with impending fatherhood and Danny Glover's with impending grandfatherhood, the film wends its curious way, alternating crashes and neck breakings with scenes of limp domestic comedy--scenes that wouldn't be out of place on Home Improvement, except that Tim Allen never says lines like "This f___ing guy! What...
...vacation in other parts of United States, it has become a search to find things authentic--the genuine, unfranchised restaurant and the ever-more-elusive regional item that was not manufactured alongside American knick-knacks in China. It is remarkable how similar the battle against corporate blah-ing exists here...