Word: ish
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Most of the photos by Nicholson Price ’03 unfortunately rise little above the mediocre. His most striking image, however, operates within the cliché of superimposition, but does so surprisingly well. A sculpture of a founding-father-ish figure in long robes, behind a humanoid angel arcing toward heaven, fills the left and center of the picture. A stone lion sits off to the side; eagles guard above. In the sky to the right, though, floats a meditative woman standing against a tree, her chin filling the ground between the angel’s head and shoulders...
...weekly—basis. Fellow seniors know all too well the worry associated with planning for the rest of one’s life away from the Ivy Tower. Instead of discussing the night terrors precipitated by these thoughts, I have an overwhelming, Billy Madison-esque, Ferris Bueller-ish urge to tell my younger readers (including any literate pre-frosh out there) to enjoy their ignorant bliss while they still can. The future comes far too quickly and the last thing you want is to be caught with your pants down. Unless, of course, exotic dancing is what...
...substantial amount of e-mails from people asking questions about bookstore hours,” Lapidus says. “Harvard Square is still recognized in the world at large as a bookstore-ish kind of place where anyone can find almost any book...
...very far back to find much more appropriate operation names. Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, for instance, were descriptive and sounded good but still avoided being infuriatingly simplistic. How about Operation Overlord or Operation Torch in World War II? They managed to sound sufficiently cool and army-ish to appeal to Americans with short attention spans, but not bombastic enough to sound like Tom Clancy’s latest video game. Even the Germans got it right with Operation Sealion...
...deal at Caesars Palace. Then he and Dion stood back and let Dragone try to create a show out of Dion's songbook. "At first I did not know at all the repertoire of Celine," says Dragone. "I do not listen to this music. It's very pop-ish, so it is not so easy to find a tableau behind the songs. There is not a theme, except love of course...