Word: topicalism
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...district in the nation has more people over 65 than the 22nd, and Social Security and Medicare are hot-button issues here. Cooper stresses his commitment to both programs. To fight crime, another important topic for seniors, he wants more street-patrolling police and tougher gun-control laws...
...contrary, Adam Ross says he found the events and discussions too informal. He says he is concerned about the presence of drugs on campus and wanted this topic to be addressed...
Clinton also successfully changes the topic when he gets cornered. Drug use skyrocketed over Clinton's four years. And no wonder, with a man who tells an MTV audience that he tried and wanted to inhale marijuana, but couldn't because he had asthma, and then goes to a debate four years later claiming, "I hate drugs," kids are left thinking that as long as we say we don't like drugs it's okay if we smoke pot a little around the edges...
...play begins not with Punch and Judy quibbling, as one might expect, but rather with the Devil (Charles Levin). He runs down an aisle through the audience to the stage, introduces himself as a troublemaker and marriage-breaker, and announces the topic of the show: marriage and relationships. The scene then shifts to Punch 2 (Benjamin Evett) and Judy 2 (Gail Grate), a modern-day couple with a young daughter, "Judy baby" (Alice Playten). (Part of the show's strangeness comes from the fact that most of the characters' names are some variation on Punch and Judy). They argue...
Cillin J. Perera '99 touches upon a popular topic of discussion regarding Loker Commons: the idea that it doesn't appeal to the entire student body...