Word: lint
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...clothing manufacturers put all those pins in new shirts? There is no dazzler at the end; he just stops talking, smiles and waves. The reader is warmed by the happy illusion that he himself could have said all that stuff. Rooney a celebrity? Come on, he's got lint in his pockets just like everyone else...
Question: What do Caesar and Madonna have in common? Answer: immortality. No, Dewitt is not talking about a certain greasy salad dressing or the lint-free bellybutton. Augustus and Madonna have given us the most prized possession of historians and glibmeisters: the buzzword, what historians who like to use foreign languages call (and italicize) the zeitgeist. Augustus gave us the Augustan age; Madonna has given us the Age of Desperation...
...letters dodge knows that an occasional desk-clearing miscellany, a dustpan with hard covers, will be indulged between actual, seat-of-the-pants books. To E. (for Edgar) L. (for Lawrence) Doctorow's credit, he includes no commencement speeches, letters to the Times, book reviews or similar lint balls in this between-books collection. Instead, the author of Ragtime and Loon Lake offers six short stories, impeccably done, rather academic, mostly forgettable, and one 65-page mishmash called, for want of an accurate tag, a novella. The mishmash, surprisingly enough, is a delight, largely because it knits...
Knowles is not so well known in the Faculty but he has cared an excellent reputation among colleagues for his handling of the Chemistry Department's affairs hiring his lint an chairmen over the last three years...
...strange, and a bit less heartening, was the solution Associate Dean for Housing Thomas L. Dingman '57 and some other officials came up with. Nothing that both students and the Cambridge fire department had become jaded and unresponsive to fire alarms--perhaps because the College had admitted that dust, lint and atmosphere fluctuation could trigger them--College officials moved quickly to reawaken students' sensitivity to possible fires. So it was that another series of noise-inspired evictions marked early mornings last week--not only in the afflicted Lowell, Dunster, Adams and parts of Quincy, but in all the Houses...