Word: sit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Year's Eve ball, incorporating Latin jazz standards such as "Mas Que Nada" and two or three pop favorites ("Beat It" and "Only You") into a group of songs for dancing close and reminiscing. Unfortunately, Nascimento often sounds like a wedding singer gone bad, and it's hard to sit through his version of "Beat It" with a straight face. The romance of the Spanish lyrics might hold your interest through the first song or two, but then the '80s elevator-music feel begins to shine through. In "Mas Que Nada," his voice is never powerful enough to generate...
...just wanted to sit around and drink and play video games and sleep," he says...
...Others wear '80s pants so tight they can feel them. The pants force them to suck in their stomachs and sit straight, straight up all class period...
...When the interviewers gather with the candidates for a 4 p.m. briefing session, you can tell at a glance who's who. The half-dozen Yalies sit stiffly in black suits and red ties. "No one told you guys it was business casual?" one interviewer says. Shemmer tries gamely to strike up conversation. "So what do you guys do at Yale for fun?" he asks. "Math club? Chess club?" Another analyst rolls her eyes. "It's the same jokes every year," she complains. Shemmer is unbowed: "Seen any good movies lately?" Murmurs. "Quiet crowd here." Just before the presentation starts...
Mamet's book is the story of an enterprising pig who overcomes discrimination--with the help of a vagabond philosopher--to become the first of her species to attend Harvard Law School and sit on the United States Supreme Court...