Word: pips
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Then Warren launched into an explanation of a lot of things Ec concentrators probably understand. FlyBy started paying attention again when she mentioned PPIP (sounds like pee-pip), an acronym she had a bit of trouble pronouncing. Oh, and she couldn't remember what it meant. "It's an investment thing," she says. But then she remembers—"Public-private investment program"—eh, not as exciting as PPIP...
...wellness tip” to “Burn calories skating on the Charles—the ice will hold you! We promise.” 10) Submit a recipe to HUDS detailing the authentic way to make lo- mein out of Adams’s beloved canine, Pip. 11) Sabotage the pot market in Cambridge—without “inspiration,” the Adams House GPA will plummet. 12) Wallpaper Adams with articles from the Salient, and allow a minority uprising to do your work for you. 13) Bribe the MAC construction workers to expand...
...condition of having only one testis, or only one descended testis”). Thanks, Norm!It’s a mildly amusing and halfway-clever diversion in a book full of them. Did you know that a young Adolf Hitler had his “pip-squeak of an anus kept as immaculate as an opal, small and glistening?” Or that evil people have an unavoidable problem with body odor? Or that bees can explain many of the most difficult aspects of human existence?Somewhere between the endless chapters on the life of bees and the endless...
...they are, of course, historically unreliable. For Hare is a British twit of the tiresomely superior leftist kind. We have no doubt that if he, instead of Blair, had been Prime Minister, he would have stood up more manfully to the Bushies. We have no doubt of his pip-pip contempt for the primitive politics of his slightly dim-witted American cousins. This attitude is fun. And it makes us squirm. But attitude is not insight. We leave Stuff Happens thinking that the chief defect of American politics is its lack of sly and worldly Oxbridge graduates of the kind...
Director Jonathan Nossiter aptly likens his film to the novels of Balzac and Dickens, with its large, colorful cast of characters manipulating society. Like Pip of Great Expectations, Mondovino’s subjects confront issues of class, tradition, and upheaval on the great stage of the “Human Comedy...