Word: boying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...famine war and pestilence and otherwise exciting and sound-biteable things like charisma, Madonna, valuable political wisdom, the lifespan of the common gnat, poll results, arms agreements, editorial comments, earth evaporating nuclear strikes...hey, what a Sound Bite that would be, get that on all the networks, yeah boy. News Flash! and we do mean flash. And we do mean bite. And we do mean noise. BAWOOOOM !... as Calvin and Hobbes say. But I'm not worried because my government has everything under the Stars safe from Wars, has me sheltered under the umbrella of Technology, so I'm happy...
...only really likable characters are the son Will, his best friend Wag and another youth named Spencer, who is obsessed with the disappearance of the dinosaurs. "In the boy's bedroom were hundreds of dinosaur models . . . An inflated Rhamphorhynchus dangled from the ceiling fixture. ('It means "prow beak," ' Spencer said.)" Spencer is showing his dinosaurs to a hungry-eyed art-gallery owner named Haveabud, who, in a truly sinister scene watched by Will, seduces him during a trip to Florida. There is quite a bit of sex in Beattieland, most of it adulterous and joyless...
Marshall's empathy for the journalists he advises comes naturally: as a boy, he wrote for The Log of the West Wind, the paper at his summer camp, and he was later sports editor for the Harvard Crimson. After graduating with a degree in American history, he joined the Peace Corps and taught English in Libya and Tunisia. Columbia Law School followed, and in 1976 Marshall joined TIME...
...Robert Campeau, the American dream that seemed so alluring from north of the border has turned into a nightmare. A relentless overachiever, Campeau once noted how, as a boy in the bleak mining town of Sudbury, Ont., "I thought any house with indoor plumbing was a palace, and I hated the people who lived there." At 14 he became a machinist's apprentice, using the baptismal certificate of a dead older brother to pass for 16. "You have to push yourself to the front of the line," Campeau later noted. He built his first house after World...
...Boy: Final season stats on Kevan Melrose: 16 games, one goal, six assists, seven points and 124 penalty minutes. That's only two fewer minutes in the sin bin than he had in twice as many games last season, and his ECAC total (98) is only six shy of last year's full-season league leader (Scott Young, Colgate...