Word: standly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unnerving that I can't quite determine whether it's my own immaturity or whether Harvard is a four-year, sleep-away-camp mixer. Being "boy crazy" and "cliquey" and getting a thrill from under age drinking hasn't exactly faded into the past. At parties, girls still stand in the corner to whisper ("That style is, like, so five minutes ago!") and gossip about recent hook-ups ("Those two together? As if!"). Boys demonstrate their ever-raging hormones by "grinding" with each other on the dance floor, chugging beer...
With the aid of Alcoholics Anonymous, FM does not have to stand for Frozen Margarita any longer. AA meets in Cambridge seven nights a week at various locations and furthermore, provides hotline support 9am-9pm Monday through Friday and noon to 9pm weekends. We're confident that the fellowship that AA affords will inspire FM to achieve and maintain sobriety. Call 426-9444 to find out times and locations of upcoming meetings...
...first truly "equal partnership" generation. Born in 1947, Hillary Rodham grew up and went to college during the heart of the women's movement. She pursued a career after attending Wellesley, not marrying until she had established her credentials. Nevertheless, the First Lady has become the prototypical "stand by your man" woman, occupying an awkward space between professional female and dependent, serving wife...
...Morality is something you have to do for yourself," Goldberg asserted. "Know thatyour ideas on morality are going to change. If youare going to take a moral stand...as we saw in theelection...then your house has to be clean. Eitheryou can walk on water or you can't. Someone iswaiting in the wings to bite you in the butt...
...once overheard boasting to a friend, "I've read War and Peace." So we know Steve Martin is intelligent. Now we know he is intelligent in print. In these comic essays (most from the New Yorker), the voice is often that of the old stand-up Steve: a fellow less cool, less together--and thus funnier--than he thinks he is. Martin takes inspiration from prescription bottles, the Schrodinger's cat paradox and Marlon Brando on Larry King Live. The little gems come at a hefty price--87[cents] each ($1.17 in Canada!)--but are worth it for their expectation...