Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Woolery laughs off the idea that the show's rules are too byzantine. "Can you imagine Abner Doubleday trying to sell baseball as a parlor game?" And the answer is no. But then, baseball didn't have to become the national pastime in its first three games...
...where he once studied geometry. He was raised a short bike ride from the school, graduating in 1985. He moved to Colorado and Texas but returned after marrying, so that he could raise his two children in Webster's small-town atmosphere--and see his students at the pizza parlor or the Krispy Kreme. He doesn't mind when they stop by his house, or hide outside his back door to blast him with water balloons. "I would never teach in a school where I didn't live," he says...
...like when you leave the beauty parlor, and you don't know how to do your hair to make it look the same again," she says. "You're helping other people help themselves...
...steady procession of failed ventures since Loker opened testifies to its enduring worthlessness. The ice cream parlor and candy shop are distant memories, but even Old Faithful, the coffeehouse, has closed. Now all that remains are such choices as a mediocre hamburger restaurant, whose motto may as well be "fast food served slow," and an entire stand devoted to all-natural smoothies and juices, evidently responding to the Harvard student population's clamorous demands for more overpriced drinks containing ginkgo biloba and spirulina...
...eveningoeach paying over a grandohad to whip out his over-used cell phone to call Stetson in his room and remind him to rejoin the group for their next concert. That was an hour ago and now Chess and the rest of the Kroks are sitting around in the parlor at the Faculty Club, waiting to sing for more corporate types fresh off a day at the Ryder Cup. Increasingly drunk, the PricewaterhouseCoopers crowd, who have rented the club for the night, give speeches about one another, their wives, their golf and the English as the Kroks, prepare their fail...