Word: romping
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...American singer Leonard Cohen once spent a few hours on an unmade hotel bed with a fellow musician. In an explicit song about their romp - clearly punctuated by some of Dr. Meloy's "emphatic exclamations" - Cohen doesn't name the woman, but there are several clues that she was the late great Janis Joplin. Cohen quotes her as saying that she preferred handsome men, but in his case would make an exception. What most impressed him about her was that throughout her short life she shunned those handcuff words, "I need you/I don't need you." That...
What follows is a whirlwind romp through American history as it pertains to the Supreme Court. Rehnquist offers short sketches of influential justices who aren’t as well known, such as Justices Joseph Story, Samuel Miller and Rufus Peckham. His description of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s failed attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court is especially engaging, and brings to life the drama of the event. Every major case touched upon in high school U.S. history is at least mentioned, and sometimes lavishly described, up through the Warren Court. Marbury v. Madison...
...phenomena, this is only round two, and while it's no novelty any more, the "Survivor" model, with new cast members every year, is sound. Second, this was reality TV - think of the material! This wouldn't be a lame clips show, it'd be a fun, gossipy Probstian romp through those 99 hours a week languishing till now on the cutting-room floor...
Duke consistently has four or five players who score in double digits each game, a feat unheard of in college basketball anymore. During its 14-point romp of North Carolina in the ACC regular-season finale, the Blue Devils had top scorers of 33, 25, 16, and 15 points. Even NBA teams would be hard pressed to maintain a distribution like that...
...kids, working a government job to pay for a four-bedroom split-level house on a cul-de-sac in a modest Virginia neighborhood, Catholic school and college for the kids, and three aging cars. Neighbors often saw him walking through a neighborhood park at night, letting his dog romp, though he rarely stopped to chat. He piled the family into a van every Sunday for Mass at the same church FBI boss Louis Freeh attended. He and his wife Bonnie belong to the church's conservative Opus Dei society. Bonnie is a devout, spiritual woman, much admired among...