Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every reading period, the greatest challenge facing Harvard students is finding an ideal place to study. Dorm rooms hold a million distractions: the phone, the Internet, the roommate who has given up on schoolwork altogether and who wants a sympathetic ear for her adventures from last weekend. The Yard and other outdoor locales may be picturesque, but the temptation to sunbathe and/or fall asleep can be overwhelming. House libraries get crowded quickly, Lamont is more conducive to people-watching and flirting than to concentrating on reading, and Widener is just too damn spooky. Cabot is strictly for the "serious" student...
Although Dever had not returned to her Lucerne apartment for fear of arrest on U.S. child-concealment charges, Shah said, he has been in touch with her by phone and has put the girls on to talk with their mother. He said he has told Dever that "we'll work it out. We are going to put our egos aside and do what's right for the girls...
...later), Toni has traveled the world and is still scratching out tortured but unnoticed poetry, while Chris somehow ended up with a nice English girl, Marion, and a house in Metroland. Toni's intrusion into Chris' suburban bliss is literally a rude awakening. His visit is announced with a phone call that wakes the baby, but more than that, it awakens the desperation Chris has been quietly holding back. When Marion asks him what he has to worry about, Chris replies, "Nothing. That's what worries me." Toni forces him to ask himself, doesn't he like to have...
...monopoly within sight of its pre-breakup glory days. Cable lines aren't just a way for AT&T to get back into the local telephone markets wrested from them in 1984, they're better. Armed with the lines' high bandwith, AT&T is positioning itself to offer phone service, cable TV and high-speed Internet access in a one-stop package...
...just around the corner when needed. In the absence of authority, when ordinary order goes askew, someone who plays Assassin may be good to have around. A little subtlety, a little of the raptor works wonders when no one has time to call 911, when the cell phone is out of service. More women ought to play now, lest they pay later. More men ought to play, lest they prove useless when push becomes shove, when the night needs repossessing. Assassin sheds only a glimmery moral light, but one that once fascinated Melville and other writers preoccupied with delineating character...