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...many legendary but worn-out bands, breaking up is something that is long overdue. But for some—like the relatively overlooked Washington DC’s Dismemberment Plan that recently announced their impending breakup—one can only hope a reunion comes quickly...
...becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil (the dark impulse to rape or murder, say) and macro-evil (the urge to genocide) achieve an ominous reunion in any bid for the apocalyptic gesture. That's the real evil that is going around...
...Again, until programmers began concentrating on series like CSI and Law & Order, which have characters as detailed and individuated as checkers pieces. By the time Survivor ends, you know its players better than you know Law & Order's Detective Briscoe after 11 years. Likewise, the WB's High School Reunion, which brings together classmates after 10 years, is really asking whether you're doomed to live out your high school role--"the jock," "the nerd" or whatnot--for life. Last fall two scripted shows, That Was Then and Do Over, asked the same question but with cardboard characters and silly...
...courses and more contact. More space for student housing might give more room to be productive and healthy. More high-tech classroom space could change the way Harvard professors are expected to teach. And with tough advocacy and a little bit of luck, I will come back for my reunion and walk into a student center. If the College does not get tossed aside, as it often is, new space in Cambridge will change our academic community forever...
...though they can't explain how one of the world's most recognizable people could remain incognito all these years, or why he'd want to. But let's assume for a second that the Big E is still around. Why, this very evening, perhaps in Argentina at a reunion of nonagenarian Nazis, or in Bin Laden's cave, or deep in Area 51, some thoughtful soul will stick 68 candles into a Twinkie and lead a chorus of "Happy Birthday, Dear Elvis." You can join in from afar...