Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These passages are the high points of Shampoo Planet, the moments when Coupland is at his wittiest and cruellest. This is the spirit of the "thought bombs" splattered in the margins of Generation X. ("Pull-the-Plug, Slice-The Pie: a fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the net worth of his parents...
Cromwell Professor of Law Louis Loss said that "three million is a good slice" of the Law School's $150 million fund drive. But beyond the gift's material value, Loss said, there is additional significance...
...like children at first," says Burnett. "Everything frightens them." Once their trust is gained, they must learn the most fundamental, practical facts about how to organize their life. In a group session, for instance, participants are asked to make a pie chart of a typical day. How big a slice does sleep get? Work? Television? Many schizophrenics are accustomed to sleeping 16 hours a day. To enforce normal habits, Burnett often uses peer pressure. When new arrivals realize that other patients in the group have cut their sleep time to eight hours, she says, "a light goes on." The technique...
Someone in Grays discovered Pinochio's and that great Eastern institution, the slice. We would congregate for pizza just after midnight and come home to work and, in my case, fritter away some more time. On day four, I wrote "Critics are raving about Ashvin...
...rational about it at first. "It'sokay to be upset," I told myself as she and I werehaving our Talk. "But stay on your feet." Sensingthat she was determined to break it off and wastalking just to smooth over the rough edges, Ileft just in time to get a slice at Pinocchio's.Later a friend of Amy's told me that she had said:"Everything seemed to be going okay and he justgot up and left...