Word: topic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Ware said the Masters might discuss the topic simply because of the article...
...going to talk about the weather, and not because I have nothing else to say. The topic is generally considered ultimately dull, a last resort to be trotted out sometime after "How 'bout them Red Sox?" One imagines old men sitting on dusty porches in Texas, commenting for the 63rd consecutive day that they seem to be in the midst of a dry spell. Once, on a tour bus in France, I sat next to a very old Japanese man whose English was entirely limited to the discussion of pleasant weather. Periodically he pointed to the sky and said, earnestly...
...contrast with your mood, as filmmakers and Romantic poets have been quick to discover (picture Gene Kelly singing in the rain, and emotional British men wandering the stormy countryside). Weather is mood music that everybody hears, and this commonality is both its strength and its downfall. As a topic that is available to everyone, we tend to bring it up when there is absolutely no other common ground. On the other hand, when we're all experiencing the same gorgeous fall day, we're all starting from the same place. There is something gratifying in the communal appreciation...
Each Tuesday at 9 p.m., one student assumes the soap box, standing up in front of other members of the Society and giving an informal presentation on a particular topic...
Womack and Coatsworth will serve as panelists at a forum on the topic entitled "Vieques: Will Clinton Take the Road Less Traveled...