Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kinda like a boxer...taking a jab here at safety, and a job here at the Ad Board. I want to bring the students into the ring with the U.C." Selamawi H. Asgedom...
...them selves, other than Michael A. O'Mary '99, who began two of three responses by attempting to ride high on Rawlins' coattails. Joseph A. Sena '99 (yet another Crimson editor) gave thoughtful if lackluster answers. Selamawi H. Asgedom '99 offered a unique council-as-boxer image ("a little jab at safety, a little jab at student representation on the Ad Board") but faded toward the end of each speech. And Ethan G. Russell '98 provided the requisite laughs with his admission, "It seems that every time I get up here I put my foot in my mouth...
...scary thirst for adoration--not to mention, as his career progressed and then faltered, an underlying rage. In fact, Levy argues convincingly that Lewis' Nutty Professor alter ego, the suave, egotistical and nasty crooner Buddy Love, is more a knowing self-portrait than, as is generally assumed, a satiric jab at Martin...
...Olympic basketball team, which trademarked the name, is going to win in Atlanta, barring a natural disaster or an alien invasion. We know that Shaquille O'Neal is going to be slamming on Angola, that Gary Payton will be stripping Croatia of the ball and that Charles Barkley will jab Lithuania with his elbows. Americans may love every moment of it, but they'll know the outcome of every game. There will be no dream there, only the hard realism of superiority. The players on the women's squad, though, are still dreaming. "We're going to have to work...
...kind of snide denunciation usually reserved for dim-witted Hollywood moguls, not the sort of jab one would expect to find in a religious newspaper. But in the current issue of the National Catholic Reporter, columnist Tim Unsworth lambastes Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz as an incompetent cleric who has "been holding his cellular phone too close to his brain." What sparked the invective was Bruskewitz's move to excommunicate members of his diocese who belong to any of 12 groups deemed "perilous to the Catholic faith," including Call to Action, the Catholic lobby supported by 5,000 priests and nuns, which...