Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic problem is that my common room is to noise what the eternal flame is to illumination. If the radio isn't blaring, my roommates are on the phone. If the phone isn't in use, they are laughing about their Ec 10 problem sets...
...Shut the hell up!" I yelled, kicking open the door to the common room. "Your mother and I are fed up with all this noise! It is 10 p.m.! 10 p.m.! 10 p.m.! Do you realize how early I have...
Basically, I'm too tired to finish writing this column. If only my roommates could understand how much sleep means to me, maybe they would speak in whispers after 11 p.m. and tiptoe around the common room. Maybe they would learn sign language...
...many workers are, to say the least, uncomfortable with the idea. Peter Appelt, a Government employee, had to walk through an office full of people with a little cup in hand to get a promotion. "It was quite embarrassing," he says. "A nurse followed me into the men's room and stood outside the stall." He passed the test, and is now a senior inspector for the Customs Service at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...
When he first got to Paris, Kelly holed up in a small hotel, sharing a tiny room with a 6-ft. 2-in. model named Kim ("Her feet stuck out from the end of the bed"). He sewed like a madman, buying only enough fabric to make the next dress. From selling clothes at a flea market, he progressed to making costumes for a discotheque and, with the help of his business partner, Bjorn Amelan, outfits for a trendy Right Bank boutique and for Benetton. By 1985, his own little black dresses, decorated with bows and buttons, were selling...