Word: shoehorned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...selective. But then there is the perception that unless a kid goes to Harvard, his life is over. "The parents get obsessed, which makes the kids obsessed," says Lemann. "It turns the high school years into a nightmare." Lemann predicts the rise of an industry that will shoehorn kids into the most prestigious colleges, even if they aren't the best fit. Diagnosing the problem as laziness, he believes that parents and students are abdicating responsibility in a process they could navigate at little cost. "You go to the store and buy the guidebook," he snaps. "What's so hard...
TMBG definitely had the audience in the palms of their hand. The roadie carrying a glockenspiel garnered a huge response as he shimmied onstage so Dan the drummer could play a note every minute or so in "Shoehorn with Teeth." The marionette head replicas of the two Johns which "sang" "Exquisite Dead Guy" to start off the encore were perfect agents of distraction for the horribly dissonant harmonies (if you will) that are the framework of that song...
...easy baby you can shoehorn into your busy schedule the way people do nowadays. Not a hobby baby. It would take a village to raise this child--about 68 people, in other words: walkers, feeders, scrapers, dressers, bouncers and maybe the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to come in for an hour or two in the evening...
Finley was also remembered for saying his soul was shaped like a shoehorn because of the time he spent getting his students into jobs...
Like the House before it, the Senate has put health-care reform on hold until early September -- a move that will probably shoehorn any effort at legislation this year into the nine-week slot between Labor and Election days. After wearing themselves out on the crime-bill fight, Senators pressured majority leader George Mitchell to scrap his vow to hold up vacations until they crafted a compromise package...