Word: mates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...constituents, I can't avoid the sinking feeling that Paxon is biding his time, jockeying for something much bigger. This may involve a renewed political alliance with Gingrich, perhaps as his vice-presidential running mate in 2000. It may involve an attempt to succeed the equally ambitious George Pataki as Governor of New York if Pataki also chooses to throw his hat in the Presidential ring. Or, in the longer run, it may involve Paxon's own bid for the Presidency...
Books on the tango decorate the living room coffee table on his 200-acre Virginia farm. Tango records are scattered about. A favorite partner in this dance fever is his dark-haired, thirtyish live-in mate, Luciana Pedraza, who hails from an upper-class Argentine family. The news has to flummox moviegoers who'd have guessed that the only music the 67-year-old actor could move to would be a Sousa march...
...story opens, narrator Jane Goodall, 30 ("not the Jane Goodall, but sometimes I think it was my name that led me from men to cows, from cows to monkeys, and then to all my research and theories"), introduces the Old-Cow-New-Cow theory. Bull meets Cow. They mate. Soon, Bull wants New Cow. Jane, a TV talk-show booker, is, in a nutshell, Old Cow. After spending two heady months with the show's executive producer, Ray, she agrees to move in with him. They find the perfect apartment, she surrenders her precious Manhattan lease--then inexplicably...
...late...A freshman is easy to dispose of. But if the caller is an instructor or a graduate the task of pacifying him, of explaining the situation, or occasionally making him see that he is asking for the impossible may be both hard and unavoidable. A familiar class-mate who rides his hobby horse into the office is likely to be attacked bodily, and dumped into a huge waste paper basket near the telephone box, provided enough editors are present. The most exciting of all the morning interruptions can be caused by an angry business manager, who comes waving...
Make way for the reformers. Last week, by fewer than 50 votes, Beth A. Stewart '00 was elected president of the Undergraduate Council. Her running mate, Samuel C. Cohen '00, also triumphed by a narrow margin. Our new leaders pledge to steer the council away from progressive politics and toward more realistic goals. They want to focus on student services and prioritize issues on which they know they can see results...