Word: moments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told my dad that even though I hated every moment of the weekend, I would definitely go: The tour-guide had great sunglasses. A shallow rationale, but then again, pre-frosh is all about engaging in the superficial: People trying out new "college personalities," judging the climate, and engaging in five-second conversations about whether or not you'll decide to come...
...about popular culture with kitschy visuals and copy. Others took the Warhol reference more literally and sprinkled the magazine with Campbell's soup cans. Recent magazine executives interpreted the title at face value--a quarter hour--and brought a chronological theme to the magazine's sections--For the Moment, The Minutes, In the Meantime, As it Were. Over the past seven years, the magazine simply hasn't grown into its new name...
...baby. That's a problem." Boogie takes a moment to think. He takes his women under his arm. We stare at him pleadingly. He whispers something to the ladies and disappears. Whatever scheme has been hatched, we are clearly not going to be the beneficiaries. A few minutes later, Boogie returns and fetches his friends. We Watch as he ushers them past the checkpoint. Bastard...
There is a moment of clam. The panhandler, the impromptu preacher, the line-dwellers, we all wait for an outbreak of generosity, for people to delve into their pockets and shovel over hoards of change. It is not to be. I make the preacher a proposition...
...beyond Commencement, knowing a bit about betrayal often means avoiding it. Date-rape involves betrayal of trust. So does adultery. So does deliberate sabotage of a project by some team member anxious to advance at the expense of the group--perhaps by seeming to solve something at the last moment. So does embezzlement by a partner. What are the early warning signs of betrayal? I know no patterns, no generic signs. But I know that without alertness, without some moral acuity, no cataloguing of warning signs, no scrap of advice proves useful...