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...BEEN YOUR MOST SURPRISING FAN? I was a nominee for some award, and Ed Bradley introduced me by mentioning the name of a skateboard trick I invented called stalefish. When you're a kid and you think of a silly name like that, you never imagine a host of 60 Minutes will ever present it in a serious tone...
...words "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ..." Upon hearing the Fox drums, I always hoped the projectionist would roll Star Wars and not, say, Chariots of Fire, which my parents cruelly sold to me and my brother as "a movie about racing." My first non-kid's movie was Corvette Summer, the 1978 embarrassment I wanted to see solely because it starred Mark Hamill. "He won't be anything like Luke Skywalker in this one," Mom said. I wouldn't budge...
...even a hint of one. They not only defer to authority; they admire it.” Though I often find Brooks’ writing frustrating, his term has echoed in my head for the four years I’ve been at Harvard. Not only is the Organization Kid present at Harvard, but she dominates the scene here...
...Breakdown: To imagine the pick-up basketball scene at the MAC, first picture the premiere streetball courts of a Brooklyn or a Venice Beach. Now replace the hard-nosed, dog-eat-dog competitors with that kid in your Spanish section. Then replace the legions of fans with a handful of medical school students playing badminton. Even though the level of play isn’t always up to snuff, most students agree that the intensity at the MAC makes it a superior locale. “For true believers,” says MAC enthusiast William H. Frank...
Though you might be the only person here who doesn’t still have a bedtime, Boston Bowl Family Fun Center offers arcade favorites for hours of semi-embarrassed enjoyment. You can give the kid playing air hockey a non-imaginary opponent, or chat up the employee nicknamed “Weird Girl,” who likes to don a long blonde wig and bright blue cape before work. Sometimes during...