Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That "all of it, every last detail" seems a tad superfluous; readers who haul this hefty novel onto their lap will already have guessed that they're in for a long trek. And for quite a while the journey seems enchanting indeed. Rai's account of his and Ormus' Bombay childhood becomes a pageant of Dickensian, subcontinent eccentrics, particularly the boys' diversely obsessed parents...
...will it be so easy to exploit the favoritism of your instructors. At College the best relationship you can hope for lies somewhere between outright hostility and cool indifference. If Mr. Johnson wants to give you a hug after you've aced his calculus quiz, don't report him. Lap up the warmth...
...year-old Great One skated one lap around the rink with teammates in tow, then came an encore, as a lone spotlight followed him around the ice and Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" blared throughout...
...would reapply the lesson himself 11 years later in his $20 billion design for the world's largest airport, at Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong--the last megastructure spawned by the floundering "tiger economies" of Asia. Foster envisaged it as a "horizontal cathedral," with its airy, Y-shaped passenger terminal under the great wing of its roof. It had teething troubles at first--there were cargo and passenger delays when it opened last July--but now, according to Wan Wai Lun, corporate affairs officer of the Hong Kong Airport Authority, "it's incredibly efficient and caters to the passengers...
...worth following because it forks into a second story--Simon and his friend Marcus (Taye Diggs) go to a Vegas lap-dance parlor and play with gunfire--and a third, involving Adam, Zack and a narc (William Fichtner) who comes on to them like a Mark Fuhrman on Viagra. Though some of these folks shade into their 30s, all act like teenagers. The movie is set on Christmas Eve, but emotionally it's Mischief Night, when kids will do anything for the freewheeling hell of it. They fool around as if there were no tomorrow, not caring that tomorrow...