Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...environmentalist," proclaimed President Bush during his campaign for the White House. Citing his love of the great outdoors and the pleasure he takes in hunting and fishing, the candidate made it clear that protecting the environment and wildlife from the ravages of pollution would be one of his top priorities. That stance raised great expectations among environmentalists, who had been suffering for eight years while President Reagan's neglect of conservation issues allowed many problems, from acid rain to toxic waste, to fester dangerously. But just four months into the Bush Administration, impatient nature lovers have begun to doubt...
...DANCE AT YOUR OWN RISK reads the sign posted near a huge cactus. Couples dance in the desert, romance hovering like heat haze; some dress in matching colors. Stuck in the ground around them are plastic hyacinths, windmills, ducks. "I can't help it if I'm still in love with you," sings a man to himself, staring off at the mountains...
...love it? At Tracks, a trendy New York City nightclub, the crowd gathers around the dance floor to watch a group called the House of Extravaganza do its stuff. The dancers, dressed in outrageous outfits, wave their hands languorously in time with the music, suck in their cheeks, stare icily into space and strut as if they were high-fashion models on the runways. Forget break dancing. So long to hiphop. At the hottest clubs in Manhattan, on MTV and at Paris fashion shows, the ultra-hip are into vogueing...
...tense? Two tents? I'd love to tell a few more knee-slappers like that one in order to further reduce the astronomically high levels of tension on this campus, but I can't. My 25 minutes...
MAYBE recapturing our lost youth, even if we only lost it four years ago, is what senior bars are all about. Freshperson Week, our proctors told us to eat, drink and see Love Story, for tomorrow we had to start working. Today, we stand in a similar position, poised over the abyss of boundless promise. Is it any wonder we should want so intensely to party so desperately, as we once did? We'll never get to experience such delirious claustrophobia again...