Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...risky business. Instead of being short and well-focused, they often end up with overwrought plots and underdeveloped characters, trying to squeeze all of life's sorrows and tragedies into 45 minutes. The bad one-acts always seem to center on two or three character who reveal their every secret dream and sin at warp speed...
...would go further. I think the Board itself should be more democratic. To begin with, it is a disgrace to a university whose motto is "veritas" that the Board's meetings and actions should be secret. What do they discuss in those meetings? Secret weapons? Troop movements? What? To judge by the minutes of long ago--opened by the University Archives after a discreet 50 years--the meetings are excruciatingly boring. Maybe that is the secret...
Lampoon: has neat old building with lots of secret compartments, funky rooms, several stereos...
...next time you're in California, try to find Stanford. Just don't ask anybody who speaks English. Consult a map--as long as it's printed in secret code! If you call Information and ask for Stanford's number, a computerized voice will tell you the answer...
Just before closing, the crowd is backed up to the door and I'm surrounded momentarily by scoopers with whom I've never worked before. My roommate Ted enters and, snickering, announces to the store that we are, in fact, secret lovers. There is a pause in the serving rush as scoopers and customers eye me with raised eyebrows. Ahhh, this homophobic world we live...