Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show, however, is not without flaws. For a sharp stand-up comic, O'Donnell makes some disconcertingly lame gags. Whenever she mispronounces anything, she comes back with a Wheel of Fortune joke: "I'd like to buy a vowel!" This was tired after just four days. And the formatted topical comedy, as it turns out, is too predictable. A joke about Julie Andrews declining a Tony nomination ended with Rosie claiming she'd turn down the Nobel Peace Prize. That's the sort of one-liner that people who have never even appeared on Star Search have been using around...
...then to the kids in my neighborhood and extended family, then to those in my children's schools, then to youngsters in the wider community. If we can all think of ourselves as casting a stone that makes ripples in a pond, we can make a difference in our Stand for Children. PAULETTE HANSEN Columbia, Missouri...
...want to escape, else they would have. Meaning that anyone can set up a cantina south of the border and live the life of the gringo in paradise. Anyone can take off for Russia and start waiting tables. Anyone can go to Nairobi and set up a lemonade stand. But people don't; they remain their vocational selves in one American metropolis or another...
...take them. It's always struck me as paradoxical how the people I know at Harvard College could be so pre-professional in their dedication to the life of the modern bourgeois, yet so escapist in their avocations. Medicine, or law, even filmmaking, cannot satiate the spirit when they stand alone. So, like the Happy Hour revelers, we seek respite through escapism, even though we never truly escape...
...opinion is that this eagerness of politicians to take a stand on gay marriage is not an indication that a forthright discussion of something like the entitlements question is just down the road. What have become known as wedge issues--issues involving social concerns--have tempted politicians since the creation of Reagan Democrats in 1980. There is a particular appeal to wedge issues that affect few voters or (until a court in Hawaii rules on gay marriage, for instance) no voters at all. I've begun to think of those as wedge hypotheticals...