Word: preps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton is being cast as a "supporting actress," in the words of White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers, while the President plays the lead sales role.) Other Administration officers will hit the road to whoop up the plan; the White House has brought in a TV coach to prep them to make the most effective possible appearances on national talk shows and local programs. Among other things, they are being told to avoid jargon: to talk of alliances, for example, instead of Health Insurance Purchasing Cooperatives -- and for heaven's sake not HIPCs (pronounced Hippicks...
ORNERY IS A GOOD TEXAS WORD. IT'S probably the word Tommy Lee Jones' teachers were searching for when, on a report card at his Dallas prep school, they described him as "sullen, morose and belligerent." But ornery is just a corruption of ordinary. And this eighth-generation Texan has never been ordinary. Not at Harvard, where he roomed with Al Gore, played on the football team and graduated cum laude. Not in his two-decade career as a charismatic character actor. Not in his parallel career as a Texas cattle rancher, or in his passion for polo. And surely...
...Gibson in The Man Without a Face: "I'm a reclusive griever whose disfigured face and mysterious past have isolated me from human feeling. But I'll tutor a fatherless 12-year-old boy so he gets into a prep school. I will learn much in return...
...Board of Education without a clue as to what the point is. This is the point: A disproportionate percentage of African and Latino Americans are poor. Poor people live in poor communities. Poor communities have poor schools. Poor schools have no money to spend on college counseling and SAT prep...
...film ends, more or less, with a goofy caper that actually happened. Tobias was desperate to leave his stepfather and the high-school tough-guy character he had invented for himself. He sent off for some prep-school applications, persuaded a friend to steal high school transcript forms, wrote glowing reference letters and actually succeeded in being admitted to the prestigious Hill School in Pennsylvania. Years after he and his brother had got to know and love each other again, he admitted the scam to the somewhat more proper Geoffrey, who, profoundly shocked and sure he was seeing a reincarnation...