Word: papering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always, he looked striking on camera. After the game, two securities traders from Staten Island summoned up the nerve to approach him. "I went down and said, 'John, if I don't get this autograph, my sister will kill me,'" one of them recalls. Without a handy piece of paper, Anthony Hahn offered Kennedy one of the pink printed menus distributed in the box-seat area; with an easy smile, he signed. It was an ordinary evening for John F. Kennedy Jr., and an equally ordinary one for the people who liked to watch...
...decidedly unromantic picture of H. L. Mencken sitting in the late night, overweight and sweating, pounding away at his keyboard in the Chesapeake heat, a fan blowing the steamy, soupy air around as he, clad only in a pair of BVDs, faces sheet after sheet of blank paper, ready to fill them with the excitement of the human narrative...
...Methodist church in my hometown. Kids would gather in the musty sanctuary for songs featuring hand gestures that seemed, for our brand of Methodism, dangerously close to dancing. We played Bible tag, memorized the books of the Old Testament and drank gallons of Kool-Aid out of waxy paper cups. Our teachers entertained us so well that we scarcely noticed that with every Popsicle-stick ark they helped us build, they were molding our little souls...
Admittedly, it's easier to romanticize about what Harvard could be when the school year is still two months off, the weather warm and paper deadlines only distant dots on the horizon. But, none the less, I am forced to wonder about the dating scene that awaits and the possibility that next year I'll have a whole lot more explaining...
...best--the kind rarely practiced anymore since the advent of television and internet services. A journalist, my editor is fond of saying, must be skilled in becoming an instant expert at anything and everything and then passing on the knowledge to the public--all for tomorrow's paper...