Word: neatness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glenn was, and is, a very neat person, so Idon't know how he dealt with living in our room.Holworthy 9 is on the first floor, which meantthat everyone in the entryway would stop by for awhile on their way upstairs. Many would bringfood, some of which inevitably ended up on ourrug. The food that didn't hit the rug insteadwould hit the piles of pizza boxes and newspapersthat lasted for weeks on our floor...
...same reason, basically, that you step on cockroaches. Geraldo is so self-righteous. If he would just say, "You know what? We're going to have a neat show today, and maybe you'll get to see a woman's breasts." But instead, he says, "We're going to talk about this cult that stabbed the kids and cut the kids' noses off, and you'll get to actually see a picture of it. It will be really neat." Geraldo has that certain je ne sais quoi. For want of a better word, I would call him a jerk...
...wanted to make a James Bond movie. "I have something better than James Bond," Lucas replied, and sketched the scenario for Raiders. The Indy series bears traces of the Bond films in its superhero with an edge of surliness, its globe-girdling itineraries, its villains purring megalomania, its neat blend of macho cynicism and schoolboy pluck. But The Last Crusade has something better than James Bond. It has Sean Connery...
...most of the problems with which Ackermann tries to deal are too complex to be neat little dictums. One of the book's major themes is the escalation of violence in the city during the 1970s, beginning with the takeover of University Hall in April...
...Pretty neat, huh?," says VanDyke, as he explains how the equipment is used. "We have the [sashes] as well as SafeStreets' identification so that the person waiting for us can easily recognize us. Each escort pair gets one beeper so that home base can give us our next assignment while we're out walking someone else. And, the particulars about each assignment go in the log book--you know, time of call, whereabouts of caller, destination, escorters' names...