Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sudden we heard someone fiddling with the door," said Jennifer L. Vogt-Lowell '01, Henrickson's next-door neighbor. "He opened the door and walked...
...also along these lines that the circumstantial humor of The Cocktail Party thrives. Reminiscent of latter-day sitcom standards, much of its humor is based on the sudden ironic entrance of various cast members. For example, in the midst of a weighty discussion between the "Unidentified Guest" and Edward Chamberlayne (Sam Shaw '99), the troubled husband whose marriage is the subject of the play, the hysterical, aunt-like Julia (Emily Stone '99) rushes in to retrieve her lost umbrella and maternally questions Edward about his seemingly drunken companion. We wish we could parrot her seeming naivete...
Like its ad campaign, Surge is a bit of a puzzle. True, the new Coca-Cola product is often likened to Mountain Dew. But its sudden appearance on the market, weird after-taste and suspicious propensity to turn the drinker's mouth green, all deserve examination. Is this simply, as Maximillian Gomez-Trochez '00 put it, "The Coca-Cola attempt to put down those irresponsible Mountain Dewers"? Another example of "porcine capitalism at its worst"? Garish vocabulary aside, Gomez-Trochez has a point which no survivor of Ec 10 can ignore. Surge may just be Coca-Cola's attempt...
Eventually, of course, I outgrew this kind of pretending. But as someone who has been involved with noir for a while, I am surprised by the sudden resurgence of interest in noir film and fiction. The heyday of noir was in the late '40s and early '50s. Between then and the middle of the '90s, the genre was nearly ignored...
Generally, the targeted tax goodies for education and retirement get phased out for joint filers with an annual household income between $75,000 and $160,000. "The thresholds are tantalizingly high," notes Tom Ochsenschlager, a tax partner with Grant Thornton in Washington. "All of a sudden, you may find it makes sense to keep your '98 income down...