Word: pies
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These passages are the high points of Shampoo Planet, the moments when Coupland is at his wittiest and cruellest. This is the spirit of the "thought bombs" splattered in the margins of Generation X. ("Pull-the-Plug, Slice-The Pie: a fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the net worth of his parents...
...that the Cold War is over, we Americans have to change our idea of what it means to be a leader of the free world. The familiar balance of powers scenario is no longer accurate, and therefore American greatness may not be synonymous with having a finger in every pie...
...cocoon of their former life. "They are like children at first," says Burnett. "Everything frightens them." Once their trust is gained, they must learn the most fundamental, practical facts about how to organize their life. In a group session, for instance, participants are asked to make a pie chart of a typical day. How big a slice does sleep get? Work? Television? Many schizophrenics are accustomed to sleeping 16 hours a day. To enforce normal habits, Burnett often uses peer pressure. When new arrivals realize that other patients in the group have cut their sleep time to eight hours...
...brother David, my most trustedconfidante through that whole year, brought meback to reality every time I called him in acrisis. School is a pressure cooker, he told me.Bailing out of Harvard was not going to be myelixir, but it couldn't hurt to go home, eat somehome-cooked apple pie and collect my thoughts, ifthat was what I wanted to do. One day after RobertKiely's English class, I got up to leave, stunnedby his eloquent lecture and, again, frustrated bymy inability to concentrate and utilize thiswealth of intellectual opportunity. I shuffled outwith Charmaine and, as we passed through...
...notoriousQuantitative Reasoning Requirement Data Test.Students arrive to their assigned testinglocation, QRR Study Guides in hand, and get readyto embark on the long journey to "20," which isthe minimum score for passing the exam. Byachieving this feat, first-years avoid the nasty"QRA" course and are liberated from bell curvesand pie charts forever. Unless they're intostatistics, or are regular readers of USA Today...