Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charing Cross Road, which played the West End and Broadway a few years ago, began as Helene Hanff's 1970 memoir of her 20-year mail-order affair with the London bookseller Marks & Co. Hanff, an aspiring Manhattan writer, never met Frank Doel, the antiquarian across the sea, yet their business correspondence about old books gradually took on the intimacy of love letters about literature. She described, with chatty eloquence, her sensuous safari through the world of words; he tracked down her requests with a consort's fond diligence...
Trend number one: The trend towards more expensive political campaigns. It has been estimated that in order to run for re-election to the U.S. Congress a senator or representative must work night and day to bring in $125,000 in campaign contributions every single month he is in office. As it is, then, the legislative body of the United States federal government is too busy grubbing change to pass laws...
Although the game is deceptively simple to the neophyte, really good foosball "requires extremely fast reflexes and quite a bit of strategy," says Philip E. Ross '88. One good working strategy entails "getting a variety of shots in order to be as unpredictable as possible," he says...
...give up on deh brochette bidness. We order Shrimp en Brochette ($8.95), an' dis time we taste the bacon. But we don' know. Comme ci, comme ca. You gotta work hard to make deh shrimp taste boring. He the kinda animal jump right in yo' mouf...
...order to remove themselves from the social catastrophe that had been created by the rise of open admissions and financial aid, the well-to-do students looked to their parents' yacht clubs for a solution. Enter the Harvard final clubs...