Word: woulda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HAVEN, Conn.--It was a coulda shoulda woulda Game that closed out a coulda shoulda woulda season...
...Governor named Jesse ("The Body") Ventura, and all week Minnesotans were feeling sort of giddy about it, like Lutherans who've drunk a little more than we meant to and now here we are singing Alley Oop and dancing on the sofa. Who woulda thunk we could get this crazy...
...Radcliffe's had dropouts too. Both country singer Bonnie Raitt (woulda been '72) and actress Elisabeth Shue (coulda been '88) lived in Cabot House--Raitt while it was still known as South House. Shue transfered from Wellesley, stayed only a year and has since been somewhat incognito in the alumni world. Aside from the occasional pornographic web page, it's hard to find much of anything about her. Raitt, on the other hand, having left after three years for a lucrative record deal, still remembered her alma mater fondly enough to write in her 20th anniversary alumni book...
Nyhan offers us more than his two-cents. He composes a complete psychological profile of Harvard in the pre-Vietnam era. "Lots of people were unhappy at Harvard then," he explains to us, "And lonely. And isolated from their fellows." Huh. Who woulda thought, George? Let's go feed the rabbits. Then we can go to the Fly and hang out with neat guys who are nothing like Ted and we can rejoice that Harvard fosters a jubilant social life...
...also warier, savvier and funnier than her television persona. "I've had a good run," she says, "but it doesn't seem like I'm working any harder than usual. Maybe I'm just enjoying myself more. My staff is always kidding me about my 'coulda, shoulda, woulda'. Well, I think there's been less of that lately." Does she ever take a vacation? "Yes, last spring I went to France. A walking tour of Provence. Rained the whole time...