Word: tangents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Internet encourages a choose-your-own-adventure book that never ends. Like Datesite.com--which sucks more people in with every failed match--the Web as a whole is a self-perpetuating, all-consuming being that almost guarantees we will never be satisfied. Links move us farther along on a tangent; dead-ends make us frustrated...
...quick, but essential, tangent: I, too, fit the mold. In my blue jeans and monochrome sweater that wasn't even light blue, I blended into the crowd just as well as everyone else. I don't exclude myself from this critique. Quite the contrary: I am writing out of concern and discouragement about myself and my friends and this campus that belongs...
What do you call a production that credits the "entire world" with script writing? That considers an unexplained, never-again-mentioned seizure as a convenient way to end a scene? That includes a twenty-minute tangent in which the main character silently watches television and sleeps...
...stout and entropic body was accented most notably by a pair of taped tortoise-shell glasses and the blood which oozed through a thin t-shirt from his right shoulder. John Norris Tangent '58 proceeded to introuduce me to his world. He knew some things which have, he said, been kept from the rest of the world because his wife, you see, was a spy for the CIA. She was the one who killed Kennedy, for Johnson. (Jack Kennedy, that is. She had no part of Robert's death; that was an FBI job. Mr. Tangen and his wife were...
...ended up purchasing the Berkeley guide, which enlightened me as to the whereabouts of excellent Vietnamese dining. I guess that I could have survived France on brie and baguettes. But if I hadn't encountered John N. Tangent '58 that day in Paris, I would still be walking through the Yard clueless as to the half of my classmates spying...