Word: juts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bills from a silver plastic wallet. Beth comes over and hands her a glass of water. "Mambo Number Five" plays on the loudspeaker, and Carrie bops her shoulders and beats a pattern on her leg with one hand. Beth wiggles her hips; the spikes on her low-slung belt jut from side to side. Neither smiles...
...archetypes of its time to impart a certain moral and melodramatic force to its story. Its kid hero, Hogarth, is full of bounce and bravery; the car-gnawing, train-wrecking giant is enthusiastically educable in his genially klutzy way. But the largest fun lies in the other characters: jut-jawed Kent Mansley, the funny-dumb government agent who has bought into the whole duck-and-cover thing; Dean, the beatnik junk sculptor whose cool helps thwart Kent's heat; Hogarth's mother, an old-fashioned, benignly clueless sit-com mom. Together they create a smart live-and-let-live parable...
...possible at Harvard Law School (HLS) until only recently. HLS, which has more than 1,600 students, roughly three times the size of its counterpart in New Haven, has a reputation for being big and impersonal. It was rumored that some students ran West Coast businesses and would jut back to Cambridge to take final exams. Then the HLS faculty cracked down, enacting a mandatory attendance policy last year that has proven highly unpopular with the students...
...tell that to Marsha Boysaw, 37, an attorney who works out to Tae-Bo four times a week. Her abs jut out below a damp sports bra as she discloses that she lost 38 lbs. in her first six months of Blanks' vigorous workouts. Jackie Gradinger, 30, a veteran of the treadmill and step aerobics, proclaims Tae-Bo "the hardest workout I've ever done." She too is impressed by its effect on her waistline, but she adds, "I do it mostly for my mind." Lynne Devlin, 37, a preschool teacher who ordered the tapes in January, finds the mind...
That means dealing with the people in your lives, whether you love them, love them and they drive you nuts, hate them, or jut want them to go away. But I'd also like to talk about mundane problems like what to do about that strange kid who always initiates conversation with you on the shuttle back to the Quad...