Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boys. The allure of the slick tuxedoes, carefully placed hair and jazzy chords brings them out in droves. The Kroks rise to the occasion, arriving in suits to each round of auditions, setting up a veritable shrine to themselves in a side room in which the audtioners wait their turn. As they sit, or pace, they can watch tapes of the Kroks at Carnegie Hall or peruse black and white photos of old members, including the Munsters' own Fred Gwynne '51. The Kroks have identical clipboards and inspect each potential member as a mechanic would an engine, walking...
...homemade pie for dessert. Maybe there's time to jump in a pile of leaves or two, and then I'll spend the rest of the day picking them off my dirty flannel shirt. At night, I'd like nothing better than to throw some logs on the fire, turn on a football game and sit back with The New York Times and a plastic New York Giants-sponsored mug of apple cider...
...candidates in close quarters. It is an opportunity to see which, if any, issues divide the candidates within a party, and a chance for candidates to break out of assumed norms and take risks. Debates are unpredictable, a fact alone that might help encourage the media to turn their attention to issues and away from mere name recognition...
...Jesse Ventura has sketched out a libertarianism on social issues (and an internationalism on trade issues) that a Buchanan candidacy would instantly erase. Buchanan's followers are rabidly pro-life and anti-foreigner and not disinclined to scan the skies for black helicopters and other imaginary craft. They also turn out at the polls ? Buchanan could expect to clear the 5 percent hurdle the party needs to hang on to its matching funds in 2004. But, and it's a big but, they have the effect of scaring everybody else away. The Reform party?s best long-term hopes, surely...
...safe bet. But at the same time, this makes it harder to embrace a House we did not choose or an academic course of study that, practically speaking, means little compared to the weight of a Harvard diploma. Ignoring these hopes completely--hopes which may or may not turn out to be false--signifies the ironist's triumph...