Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Long established as a promised land of singles, the Quad does indeed offer a substantially higher proportion of single rooms to rising sophomores than many River Houses offer. Nevertheless, many a be-doubled Quad sophomore will suggest that the administration of Houses paints too rosy a picture of the singles scene...
...Believe it or not, I had several friends who didn't know what a buckeye was. Coming from Illinois, land of the Big Ten, I found this appalling...
Saudi Arabia is a land rich in oil and privileged royal princes. Yet it is so tight for cash that Crown Prince Abdullah, who is running the show for the ailing King Fahd, has boldly cut the budget. And he is reportedly sending out "Abdullahgrams" to spendthrift nephews, demanding that they reverse their habit of ignoring telephone and electricity bills or face service cutoffs like ordinary Saudis...
Others I spoke with described the purity of his swing and his instinctive ability to arrive where a ball was about to land. My own experience was confined to a single game, the first I ever saw, when DiMaggio, suffering from a bone spur, was on his last legs. The mother of a boy in our neighborhood took a bunch of us to the Stadium. DiMaggio hit a drive into the upper deck in right. "You'll never forget that," said my friend's mother...
...said to myself, 'These people are nuts; this is kind of interesting.'" After touring Scandinavia in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire ("I remember lots of old people falling asleep in dinner theaters," he says), Gandolfini immersed himself in Manhattan's downtown theater world and then started to land the kind of film roles--in True Romance, She's So Lovely--that eventually caught Chase...