Word: riffraff
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...hypnosis expert from La Jolla, Calif., recommends selecting a physical trigger, like holding a golf ball while walking down the fairway, which will signal your brain to slow down. "As I hold the golf ball, I feel a calm energy," Silbert says. "I let go of the conscious riffraff, I'm reprogramming the unconscious mind. The verbiage in my mind is affirming: 'Fairways of power, greens of solace.'" Are you in a trance yet? For Woods, Scott suggests a less hippie-sounding mental chant, perhaps, "I'm the greatest player in the world, see each shot as it lands...
...only people who are perusing your magazine are those on the moneybags list, those who can afford $20 for a magazine and those who hop on private jets - the magazine is being placed in private airports too - you can argue that you've really cut out the riffraff readers. Then again, getting the magazine and reading it are not at all the same thing. (Plus, isn't this what breeds resentment against the wealthy? They who need it least get stuff - information, perks, taxpayer bailouts - for free, while everyone else pays.) (Read "Rick Warren's Magazine: A Publishing Leap...
...University's been taking such extreme measures as eliminating the January Experience and acknowledging the possibility of layoffs. But forget about all that. The real sign of the apocalypse? Opening the doors of the exclusive Faculty Club to the riffraff ordinary students. Now, far be it from FlyBy to draw a link between the economic situation and a bunch of grubby freshmen descending on old Abbot Lawrence Lowell's little gem. But the question remains, is the "Special Invitation" to "come, celebrate, network, and relax" a worthwhile endeavor...
...Within weeks the frame was set among national journalists, and when conservative columnists joined in, the campaign was done. George Will, writing in late August 1992, said: "Serious people flinch from being associated with the intellectual slum that is the Bush campaign, with its riffraff of liars and aspiring ayatollahs...
...actor coasted on that reputation for decades. "The only difference between me and my fellow actors," he said, "is that I've spent more time in jail." And when quizzed about his 60-day stretch at a California prison farm, he replied, "It's like Palm Springs without the riffraff...