Word: lapping
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...item, may express itself in a thousand ways. Bush seems conventionally ignorant and incurious. Perhaps the impression is unfair. Maybe Bush is smarter than he looks. Perhaps he is afflicted by a genetic goofiness that leaves an erroneous impression; at least he has not yet thrown up in the lap of any heads of state. But when Bush talks passionately about education, I wish I could shake the suspicion that the last book he read was "Goodnight Moon" when the twins were three...
...building boasts a six-lane lap pool, three basketball courts, a mezzanine area with cardiovascular equipment, two fitness rooms with weight equipment, one nautilus room and lots of locker room space. It also houses five varsity athletic programs, in addition to the offices of several more varsity coaches...
...Class of 2004 has finished the opening lap: Extracurriculars have been chosen, classes picked, e-mail lists joined, and the lines at Annenberg are thinning out. The initial adjustment is over, but life at college is just beginning...
...through these masterpieces of emotional pornography, jotting down derisive notes. Oh, if the contrivance is blatant enough, I may get a bit teary; it is, after all, no more difficult for filmmakers to make an audience cry by depicting, say, a child in jeopardy than it is for a lap dancer to evoke an erection in her client. At the end I have the gloomy certitude that moviegoers will love Ghost or Cinema Paradiso or The Full Monty every bit as much as I disliked it. There--I've said it. Is everyone alienated...
...first drive of the game, when Rose found Farley over the middle of the field for a huge gain. Farley was then stripped by Cornell cornerback Jimmy Vattes and the ball skipped all the way to the 2-yard line, where a fortuitous bounce left it in the lap of junior wide receiver Sam Taylor. The Crimson scored two plays later...