Word: preps
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...Steve Vizard, a lawyer turned comedian who was host of a late-night show down under for three years, starting in 1990. He had the Letterman repertoire down pat, introduc-ing bits with the same tongue-in-cheek flourish ("I have in my left hand... "). Staff members would even prep American guests on the show by telling them, "Just pretend you're on the Letterman show." Though critics hooted at the thievery, most Aussie viewers didn't get the references--until 1994, when the real Letterman show started airing in Australia. By then Vizard was safely...
Americans will promptly notice a British accent in Mortimer's writing. Novelist Felix Morsom inhabits a world of prawns and wireless sets and lorries painted carmine, where children do their prep every night for school and where adults have sexual connection. The distinction between a barrister and a solicitor and other niceties of the English legal system, which play a rather prominent role in the latter part of the book, can also be confusing to the uninitiated on the other side of The Pond, but no cultural barriers can mitigate the horror of the nightmarish side of London suddenly exposed...
That day--our "feast of Crispian"--won more than a simple victory. We came together as a school, watching and celebrating and relaxing. Ahren Rittershaus wrote "Die Prep" with duct tape on his sweatshirt, and during the second half, we sang TV theme songs from "Different Strokes" to "The Jeffersons...
...challenge at Brown," Tim Perry said. "He's going into a situation where Brown has had losing teams the last 15 years, and he's excited at being a part of turning that around. It's what he feels like he was a part of at M.C. The Prep game was the culmination. In a lot of ways, it made his whole high school career...
Jiang Zemin had an appointment with Bill Clinton at the White House last Tuesday night to talk about some of the touchier items on the agenda for the next day's summit meeting. But before that, to prep the visiting Chinese President for the private session, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dropped by to see him at Blair House, the government's guest quarters. She warned Jiang that Clinton was going to push human rights very strongly that night. The U.S. press and public would judge Jiang on what he had to say on the issue, she said. "That...