Word: objections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. (When I sleep I give C's.) How? By facts. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form; be sure we don't miss them...
...shot at achieving some sort of legitimacy is to cut its size. With fewer members, who are actually forced to compete against one another to gain seats on the council, council representatives will be forced to run on legitimate platforms (or at least popular ones). Some members object that reducing the size of the council will make it less representative. This is nonsense, for as it stands now our student government is more of a volunteer organization than an elected body; essentially the council represents the views of members who wish to become "representatives". The fact that only 50 members...
PROSAIC ACME BRICKS: The Official Brick of the Millennium OBJECT ANGELO BROTHERS: The Official Ballast of the New Millennium...
...Oops! This object won't hit the earth...
...believed had committed a crime. Republican lawmakers voted along party lines, over public protest, to impeach a popular President from the opposing party and in the process dissolved their authority in acid on the House floor. The press corps that viewed itself as the public's conscience became the object of its scorn. Hillary Clinton, who for years had been vilified for leveraging the power of her marriage, was extolled for having handled with grace its public ruin and so finds herself loved for reasons she hates. Ken Starr, who was once viewed as too moderate to beat Oliver North...