Word: whim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Former treasurer of the Kirkland House Committee Sam Yagan '99, admits that allocation of HoCo funds are "based on the whim of the people present at any particular meeting." Inevitably, committees favor certain investments: Kirkland's HoCo subsidizes the Boat Club; Cabot's Weight Room "Czar" Marty Thiry '00, requested $3,000 to refurbish the weight room, and Lowell's HoCo succeeded in extending dining hall hours. Apportioning is also made in the name of the zany and the philanthropic, from Leverett HoCo's $200 kazoo purchase for their Winter Carnival to Kirkland House's support of a dining hall...
...ever more obscure secular concetti. In a word, the paintings are totally mannerist; even today scholars don't agree on what they're actually about. Their oddity is deepened by the fact that Dosso made them up as he went along, adding figures and painting them out as the whim took him, rather than sticking to a preset program of images...
...only be entertaining. Star tattle proceeds from two American impulses: cynicism and sentimentality. Sentimentally we imagine that a popular artist must have hidden depths. Cynically we suspect that every star must have a guilty secret; all that power, money and spare time allow them to act out any sick whim. Gossip has become the purest form of show biz, a story that can be as short as a gerbil joke or as epic as the Monica Follies. It attaches itself to any prominent person, no matter how conventional or innocent he may appear...
...candidates for cruel bosses were women, mostly because so few bosses are women. But Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean, played evil stepmom to all the employees of her husband, New York City real estate mogul Harry Helmsley. She fired employees at a whim (one for taking an apple from the kitchen while working through lunch) and had that rich-person disease of being paranoid that everyone was stealing from her; meanwhile, she was convicted of tax evasion. Even one of her lawyers called her a "tough bitch...
...mansions on the hill to the ground. It's simply not American to root for a guy who has elevators in his house. This is why the American people still won't turn on Bill Clinton--he's a lifelong renter and lives in mansions at the public's whim. If Clinton owned a Xanadu in Little Rock, he would have been drummed out of the White House long...