Word: patheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roommates Aaron S. Montgomery 'OO and McComma Grayson 'OO met while playing a game of Red Light, Green light on the gravel playground of a Detroit elementary school. They knew each other as rivals from different homerooms-competitors in schoolyard pickup games like juice box football-but when homerooms ended...
I opened my car door again and almost lost it as a SUV came zooming by-I stared at the rest of the oncoming traffic, half wishing that someone might think I looked pathetic enough to be worthy of assistance.
The pathetic scene, captured on a Turkish intelligence-service video, contrasted sharply with the macho image of the mustachioed Marxist guerrilla who has headed the long Kurdish insurgency that has left some 30,000 soldiers, rebels and civilians dead. But lest anyone imagine that the P.K.K.'s capacity for troublemaking...
And then there are the supporting characters--amazingly transformed into walking and talking jokes and little more. Judge glaringly neglects these personages, especially Gibbons' buddies at Initech, Samir (Ajay Naidu) and the nominally cursed Michael Bolton (David Herman). The cast of Office Space is, essentially, a cast of cartoon characters...
Offer more instruction, in the form of sections and seminars, in the Houses. I've only once had a section taught in my House. It was certainly more convenient and a great opportunity to meet new people in the House. But most importantly, the relaxed, informal environment led to the...