Word: raucous
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...knows" she's running.) I shrug, I try to avoid the question, I say it's too early-and it is. But you want to know too, right? So here it is. I like Senator Clinton. She has a wicked, ironic sense of humor (in private) and a great raucous belly laugh. She is smart and solid; she inspires tremendous loyalty among those who work for her. She is not quite as creative a policy thinker as her husband, but she easily masters difficult issues-her newfound grasp of military matters has impressed colleagues of both parties on the Armed...
...College. We have heard time and again that the administration is dedicated to improving campus social life. And it is not to say that there have been no efforts, the oft-touted Loker Pub Nights being the shining example. But it is no secret that students want a raucous, rocking concert—like virtually every other college campus. When it was realized that the UC’s plans had fallen through, it is extremely unfortunate that the College did not help save the event...
Matherites consistently do their best to put on a raucous bash which has been historically riddled with controversy. Two years ago they ran out of foam. Last year they came under fire for advertising to pre-frosh females. But this year they really outdid themselves, landing an Associated Press article which included the quote, “I am going to scratch myself until I bleed to death if this continues another day.” Mather, you are full of geniuses. Dirty, yes, but sharp...
...with a sense of the anti-material oppositeness of the thing ... Without so much as the caesura of a drawn breath I was first shouting in joy, then screaming in shock ... I had discovered in myself the double personality engendered by school: the good attentive boy in class, the raucous, unsprung Dionysian in the schoolyard at recess...
...comfortable blasting away on his saxophone at raucous company parties as he is gabbing with clients and hackers late at night via his personal computer. Whether he is conducting business meetings in the back room of his favorite Chinese restaurant or totting up profits of his best-selling computer programs, Philippe Kahn, 33, the unconventional founder and president of Borland International, relishes his self-styled role as the "Crazy Frenchman" of the software business. And while other executives bemoan their industry's slowdown, Kahn, whose sales have zoomed from zero in 1983 to an estimated $30 million this year, simply...