Word: railing
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...tidings from the goose meadow are voluminous and vitriolic. His messages rail against "sick developer types" who are "attacking" the geese...
...clearly different from having human beings change certain clear votes to other clear votes. In a land of no-fault auto insurance and no-fault divorce, where the woman who spills coffee on herself is awarded three million dollars and the drunken student who electrocutes himself on a Dinkey rail is similarly remunerated, do we really need no-fault ballot screw...
...them will probably be there when the economy claims its downturn, and the other side will crow endlessly, and unless they've both been seriously underestimated as potential leaders, one of these unlucky guys is going to get run out of Washington on a rail. Big time...
Since the play is set in the later stages of Bankhead's life, author Sandra Ryan Heyward makes Bankhead rail against the fates and begin to dissolve into self-pity. Perhaps this is understandable for a middle-aged actress whose career is going out the window and whose lovers are dwindling, but I am sure that the real Bankhead in the throes of self-pity was not a pleasant sight. Turner's portrayal is no more enjoyable, but just as the play seems to be mired down in whiskey-soaked emotion, Heyward throws out a wise-crack that shows Bankhead...
Professor of English James Engell '73 owns a permit, and though he says parking is a problem for many faculty members, he says lives in Acton and frequently takes the commuter rail into Cambridge and is thus less inconvenienced than other professors...