Word: roped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Study Bill Clinton working a rope line. Greedily, avidly, his long, curiously angled fingers reach deep into the crowd to make the touch, an image that in my mind has some cartoonist's kinship to Michelangelo's Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Lyndon Johnson pressed flesh with the same gluttonous physicality, wading into the human surf, clawing and pawing into the democratic mass with an appetite amazing, alarming...
...media too. Dot.com spending is expected to plateau once the winning companies are in command and more consumers shift to the Net. It could result in an Internet take on an old Marxist theme: When new media arrived to hang old media, the networks sold them the rope...
...Takedown method: "He was trying to jump the rope [in Harvard Yard]--I dove after him and got him from behind...
...Entering the doors is like sliding into a jump rope game at the right time, between the rope hitting the floor and it hitting you in the face. Do you wait or do you rush? If you rush, you can become a human doorstop. If you wait, you're left hanging for a full rotation. Bea Beaulieu, a Science Center security guard who has been navigating the spinners for years, holds the secret to the rotating doors. "You have to scoot," she says, doing a sample "scoot" dance in her Wackenhut uniform. To "scoot," you need to be in tune...
...entering the doors is like leaping into a jump rope sequence, two people in a compartment can make it as complicated as double dutch. Is it rude to squish up behind someone? "Damn straight, it's rude, " answers Pete A. Steciuk '03, who feels piggy-backing is a slimy, clumsy way to hit on someone...