Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victor's formidable mother, Miss Lillian, was freely available at the old railroad depot, dispensing her startling wit and candor. His brother Billy was cheerfully posing for snapshots at the gas pump, permanent beer can ominously poised. Even the President-elect and his wife were visible, making occasional forays to greet childhood friends or to eat at the nearest restaurants-every forkful watched for significance by a merciless post-Watergate press corps. A sizable slice of the citizenry willingly guided the influx of strangers round the sites-Jimmy's birthplace, his country home, his father's simple...
What Wellesley women say is the worst part of not seeing men during the week, however, is that they never get to interact with them on a day-to-day basis as friends. "I really miss not having guys in classes," says sophomore Amy Jordan. "The only time we ever see guys is on the weekends, and that's always a stilted and unnatural environment. At times when we just want to meet men as friends, we can be misperceived as wanting to be picked...
...College Exchange, of which Wellesley is a member. "Because Wellesley is single-sex and so isolated, everyone wants to get away at one time or another," says Jordan, who will probably spend next year at the University of California at Berkeley. "Wellesley is too mellow for me; I miss the 'real' college atmosphere of frats, football games and parties," she says...
...enhances his portrait with appropriate comparisions, or soft-spoken but astute analysis. In one case, Kaplan contrasts a friendship between Whitman and an intimate acquaintance, Peter Doyle, to Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in the cabmen's shelter in Ulysses, and Nathanial West's own "Peter Doyle" holding hands with Miss Lonely hearts at a speakeasy...
...Halloween Killer," Manny starts Lonnie on the garish glory road to 27 murders. The tabloids swiftly pick up the scent (THE HALLOWEEN KILLER STALKS JACKIE O.). Smarmy talk-show hosts fawn on him, paperback offers and film rights proliferate, and Lonnie makes big bad bawdy whoopee with Miss America. Christine Baranski zeroes in on this character's vacuous dedication and chews her words like stale gum. Griffin Dunne has a sensitive trigger finger on his role throughout...