Word: sit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time was special. We would eat together, especially late at night, walk along the river or on one of the beautiful Cambridge streets, sit anywhere there happened to be a seat and talk for hours...
...Eastern Sprints and second at the Henley Regatta in England. Although crew is a spring sport, the biggest crew event comes in the fall, when zillions of drunk and obnoxious prep school kids invade Cambridge for the Head of the Charles Regatta. No one actually watches the race, just sit on the shore and people-watch...
...live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin," wrote Chesterton. Science makes a more severe judgment. It calls living in the present psychotic. Not happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care living in the present, but the real thing. Some individuals by reason of accident or disease (generally alcoholism) suffer from what is called Korsakoff's psychosis: they have no memory. Not that they have forgotten their ancient childhood memories. They often retain these. But they have lost entirely the capacity to establish new memories. Everything they see, everything they hear, everything they think, they forget within...
...black-tie benefit, Wayne wanders around without speaking to his guests, and when the gorgeous blonde photographer Vicky Vale (Kim Bassinger) asks where she can find the host, he gives her a confused look and conceals his identity. Later, when he invites Vale to dinner, they sit at opposite ends of a long table, unable to see or hear each other...
...given world premieres of more than 200 works, including five so far this year. "When people come to a Kronos concert," says Jeanrenaud, "they know they will hear something that requires a reaction, even if they don't like what they are hearing. You can't just sit back and relax...