Word: suggestiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There must be a solution besides branding and banishment; such absolutes are ridiculous in a peaceful community. Might we suggest a few more moderate solutions of a coordinated interhouse system. Interhouse dining bans could be rotated on a regular schedule. Dining Services should coordinate a system wherein convenient dining halls close down to interhouse visitors on an alternating basis. Or perhaps student groups could be allowed to eat wherever they pleased, but only until a certain time. Before this set time--6 p.m., for example, students could eat wherever they wanted, but after the cutoff we could return to restrictions...
Davis' staff members develop tics when you suggest their boss is Clinton, the triangulator, but without the action pants. They'd rather throw Tony Blair's name on the table for the way Blair moved England's Labour Party to the center. Even the Wall Street Journal made that comparison last month, holding its nose and flattering the Democratic Governor in the reluctant, quivering tone one might use to proclaim that proctological exams, while unpleasant, can be a good thing...
Very nice, but that's more of a slogan than a vision, say killjoy Republicans like Brulte and Baugh. And even jealous Democrats suggest--anonymously--that Davis sees no further than to the bottom line of the latest poll that's dropped under his nose. Once he tests the wind, "he's great at splitting the difference and being in the middle for middle's sake rather than because that's where he wants to be," says one Democrat...
...expect to be fully engaged with the actors, even as they break down "the fourth wall a lot" to "seek emotional solace from the audience." The interactive nature of the performance is enhanced by the intimacy of the Adams Pool Theater and McGee says that the very design will suggest the haunting of the theater by the "ghosts of the characters...
...character defects that got Harry and Wayne into trouble are precisely those that appeal to the Happy, Texans. The town loves the danger they suggest, or perhaps just their novelty. In a place where everybody knows everybody, the unknown is sexy; it offers a last hope for change, adventure, escape. Jettisoning propriety means the locals have never felt so alive. If the fling ends in one's getting flung...well, as the sheriff says, "That's what life is about, isn't it--finding...