Word: lap
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...hours later, they will rush out of the back door onto a desolate Church Street, picking rice out of their hair and brushing after-dinner mints off their laps. The lucky ones might have given a lap dance on stage, bumped pelvises with perfect strangers as they danced the “Time Warp” in the aisles, or received an impromptu serenade from a man in lipstick and a miniskirt. They will have seen one of the greatest cult classics of all time, yelled at the screen and watched a seven-person cast act in sync with...
...lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argue his case at the Moakley federal courthouse in downtown Boston, Benjamin G. Edelman ’02 looks nonchalant, occasionally scrawling a word or two on the notepad in his lap...
...Louis Roederer champagne (maker of Cristal) to Timberland boots--that have flourished once an urban, largely African-American audience embraced them. But more than any of these crossover brands, M&N has triumphed because of a single unlikely hero. "I consider it a miracle that Reuben fell into my lap. He deserves all the credit," says company owner Peter Capolino, 58, a pale, bespectacled Barry Manilow fan who now chums around with Jay-Z, Shaquille O'Neal and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony...
Washington changed in those next few hours. The U.S., which had assumed scientific pre-eminence, had been beaten in the opening lap of the space race. Before the night was over the Russians had fueled themselves with vodka and stood curbside in front of their embassy, staring into the night sky, singing and cheering...
...green-tiled temples rising in the distance and the men blowing spheroids of snot straight onto the street one nostril at a time. "I thought, s---, I'm going to get stuck in this bloody ghost town forever," he says, hands tearing a napkin to shreds in his lap. "At that moment I thought: I have to get out of here...