Word: snag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Table" (haven't they noticed many women are sitting there already?), or designing cards with "Twelve Important Messages for Women" that can "fit in a man's pocket and a woman's purse," in the words of one G.O.P. operative. Democrats too have launched a guerrilla operation to snag women in this election. But mostly the Democrats are smirking because they're pretty sure that whatever women want, or will want in November, it doesn't rhyme with "coal." On both sides, men are rubbing their eyes and seeing Woman once again as inscrutable Other--bred in primordial tidal pools...
This time the festival attracted visitors from Britain, Denmark, Israel, Syria, Australia and China. Even Hollywood showed up: ABC, NBC, TNT, Warner Bros. Television and Carsey-Werner all sent emissaries. Some were looking to snag writers and actors for the mainstream entertainment maw. Others came to join the collegial ferment. Says Janet Blake, a veep at Walt Disney Television: "Where else can you have a lively discussion with Jimmy Breslin"--who presented a savagely witty skit about Newt Gingrich haranguing his first wife in her hospital bed--"and two minutes later be talking to Tony Kushner? Only in Louisville...
What makes this pursuit more absurd is that Harvard lavishes honors upon almost all of her students. "Cum Laude in General Studies," which has been transformed for the thin-skinned into the less euphemistic, "Cum Laude," offers more than 80 percent of the class the opportunity to snag honors without assuming any additional departmental burdens. There are real reasons to write a thesis. With the perspective of time (all two weeks of it), I find myself remembering fondly my final month, where I bled some 80 pages. The thesis stands before me now, not as some alien product...
...still eat well, snag the occasional case of liquor or junket to Palm Springs, California, if your friendships are sufficiently close. This being Washington, there is a sheaf of guidelines defining this ineffable state, and the very careful can get an advisory opinion certifying the degree of closeness in case one is reported for impermissible fraternization with a known lobbyist. The House guidelines mix lawyerly analysis with primer language the most ethically challenged can understand, employing kindergarten names such as Moe Member, Larry Lobbyist and Stella Staffer to make their points. (Example: Carla Congresswoman lunches periodically with Edna Executive. Edna...
...Patrol has high hopes for today's visit. They won't be dispensing the year's largest award--1995's grand prizewinner will snag $10 million--but today's is surely the most picturesque: a bright red Jaguar convertible. The Prize Patrol suspects that Hall will be the kind of small-town elderly woman who will look good on tape as she weeps for joy in a snazzy bucket seat (she will, of course, have the option of choosing a $65,000 check instead). No one knows her age, but Prize Patrol leader David Sayer notes hopefully that "Nellye...