Word: whim
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...Ferus ’07 arrived on campus knowing that all of his roommates, himself included, were musicians. On the first Saturday of the term, once he and his fellow occupants of Grays Middle 54 had settled in, Ferus decided to rally his roommates for a performance. On a whim he left a message on all the doors in his entryway announcing a recital to take place...
...around your TV? The $1,800 set, due next spring, leaves peripheral devices, such as a DVD player, cable box or satellite hookup, connected to the SmartLink transmitter, far left, keeping the 15-in. television free of unsightly wires and letting you carry it around the house on a whim. The remote can command all your devices, so there's no need to race between rooms--or bribe a loved one--to go pause a movie...
...fact that Ray is actually a secret agent. That's right: Ray works for the CIA gathering information about local political operatives, in particular a brilliant, charismatic local doctor. (Poor, hot and ravaged by aids, Rush's Botswana practically vibrates with political instability.) This isn't just a whim on the author's part: Mortals comes with the whole special-ops toy chest, including secret signals, micro-recorders, coded transmissions and even a violent and extended mission into the bush. This could have the effect of cleaving the novel into two incompatible halves - a portrait of a marriage...
...this year, his coterie of staffers struggling to keep up. More aides sweated away in the bowels of Mass. Hall, churning out briefing books by the ream. And these handlers and spokespeople lit up the University’s switchboards, following up on their boss’s latest whim...
...indulged every intellectual whim and didn’t specialize much,” he says. “I was always doing well in school because I was doing what I wanted. And that persisted through Harvard...