Word: skips
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...like all this hardship business. I don't like to see basketball players skip their last set on in college. I was overjoyed when Herschel Walker decided not to bring the same practice to college football this year, but you and I both know that he will go next year after he wins the Heisman Trophy that he wants so badly...
...bicoastal trio stubbornly cling to their surplus pounds. They skip yoga ("Imagine you're a pink cloud," urges the teacher). They miss pool exercises, which involve strenuous efforts to drown plastic balls by pushing them "down ... aaand down .. . aaand harder, again!" During Shintaido, an unlikely hybrid of martial arts and modern dance that starts with an excruciating series of froglike hops, the trio sit in the lobby complaining. They are wondering about flights to Las Vegas when Karma Kientzler finds them...
...more than 60 years ago. The designers use ample white space to give their work freshness and clarity. They have added a bright red color throughout for emphasis. Complicated material has been arranged in orderly columns. The new system makes it easy to pick out what is relevant and skip what is not. A new table of contents on the inside cover gives an overview of the task ahead. And then the sequence starts: Step 1, Step 2, in an easy downward flow, until at Step 8, which is the bottom line, "Refund or tax payment...
Better to ignore such axioms and skip to the book's true bonuses-the monster monologues in which each little assailant reveals his policies and inner psyche, the cartooned transcription, music included, of the halftime show, the handy drawing of the sequence of bonus fruits, and the reiterated exhortations to "get out of your chair and pump a shiny new quarter into the closest machine." Frankly, if there's one passage worth marking for easy reference at the machine, between games, that basic bit of advice is it. I can't think of anything I'd rather have...
...boasts, "The Iron Age comes ... A month ago, it was the Stone Age ... digging vegetables with wooden shovels and clobbering rats with flint axes. We're moving right along. It'll be 1832 in a few days! By the way, people, I'm planning to skip the 20th century altogether...