Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said very little. In the still, blank autumn afternoons like these, our silence abetted the season. One of us would open with some typically male, moderately hearty greeting; the other would follow with an observation about essentially nothing, like the lowering sky; the other would grunt or nod; John would pedal away, and that would be that...
...Republican Party has long struggled to show its sensitive side. Self-appointed pundits of pathos, from Bill Bennett to Arianna Huffington to Lamar Alexander, have tried to teach the party the sharing-caring nod, but loosening up the body language hasn't worked. And now that the party has made a black "compassionate conservative" one of its headliners, Republican leaders must deliver on the image of openness that appears on the marquee. "You can't just wear lace panties with Republican business suits," says G.O.P. consultant Alex Castellanos. "You have to actually help people...
That long delay between the time you have an X ray taken and the time you get the results is getting shorter, thanks to digital radiography systems from Canon, which won FDA approval last week, and General Electric, which got the nod last month. Doctors can view digital images captured by silicon sensors just three seconds after they are taken, as opposed to waits as long as 30 min. with traditional X rays...
...Ideally, the lettuce appreciates the tomatoes for the tomato-ness, the mushrooms for their mushroom-ness, and so on; yet we are often too busy to examine each component of the salad bowl for its complexities. We chew it quickly, sensing only what is most immediate to our tastebuds, nod, and move on to the next bite, Thus it is that American multiculturalism touts only the most obvious and easily accessible features of its various ethnic groups. Italian culture is tomato sauce and Sunday Mass and frescoes; Jewish culture is all about dreidels and yarmulkes and challah and concentration camps...
...Look, we always wear black," says Reichek, as students nod solemnly or chuckle. After the class ends, the truth comes out. A student admits that the class's attire had in fact been planned in the studio the night before after TF Jennifer E. Mergel '98 announced that a Crimson reporter would attend the next class. Apparently, the group generated the idea of subverting the "artsy" stereotype, representing themselves as exactly that for the reporter's benefit...