Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still smelled like rasberry tootsie pops and Sprite, still loved me, and didn't want to frighten me in the way that we were frightening Dave. I admired her intelligence. How clever, I thought, to pretend she was somebody that Dave knew, to let Dave suffer insults, let Dave wonder what monstrosity was lurking at the other end of the line to swallow him up in its beasty claws. Dave could fret, Dave could drive, and Dave would step aside when Cappi threw off her Iowa mask and revealed herself in all her glory...
...allusions to Full Force's own recordings. On "A Fool Is Born Everyday" they toss in their well-known "Don't even try it/Full Force don't buy it" line over some spare beats. The album's fine opening track, with a beat reminiscent of last year's "I Wonder If I Take You Home," is even titled "Everything Will B-Fine," after Full Force member B-Fine...
Moreover, airplane interiors are the ugliest places in the world, except for the Sackler museum. One must wonder who gets paid to choose the color schemes for commercial planes. The wavy lines that go across everything aren't so bad. Even the rugs on the walls that separate plebes from those idiots in first class aren't so appalling. But the seats are horrible. The designers have eshewed simple fabrics and normal solid colors in favor of strange shades of brownish green or rusty orange, (or, worse, a combination of both...
...STILL wonder: Why do we have to go through with it at all? According to the Core Curriculum pamphlet, the purpose of the computer exam is "to teach students how to use a computer, enabling them to understand its capabilities and limitations." Does it fulfill its purpose...
There is an inescapable tendency, however, to exaggerate Hart's liabilities. At this premature stage, almost everyone following the Democratic contest -- the press, campaign consultants for rival candidates, and party officials who want to be wooed -- has a vested interest in a political horse race. Small wonder the conventional wisdom is filled with airy speculation about which Democrat might suddenly emerge from the pack with a Hart-stopping charge in Iowa or New Hampshire...