Word: couchful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...years are hanging out in a fourth-floor common room in Weld Hall, chatting about extracurriculars and classes, relaxing after a football game. A few of them are lying on the floor, a couple are loafing in armchairs and the rest are lounging on a tan-and-white striped couch...
That's the couch that made them friends. On move-in day, the girls of Weld 42 couldn't get the couch up to the fourth floor, so they asked the boys in Weld 32 to help...
...that the idealism of "West Wing" constitutes some sort of wish-fulfillment for its viewers. In the modern world, zoning out in front of the television may indeed be tantamount to a 21st century version of dreaming; had Freud lived today, he might agree that when we switch into couch potato mode, we are unconsciously drawn to that which we desire most...
...Ronnie had a weird natural vibrato - almost a tremolo, really - that modulated her little-girl timbre into something that penetrated the Wall of Sound like a nail gun. It is an uncanny instrument. Sitting on a ragged couch in my railroad flat, I could hear her through all the arguments on the street, the car alarms, the sirens. She floated above the sound of New York while also being a part of it - a Bronx-born Latina stomping her foot on the sidewalk and insisting on being heard...
...Love." Phil opens with a seismic riff - a sax line of tectonic dimension, especially on crankin? speakers - but the song's just starting, and the second time through he adds the backup vocals: "Bop bop bop, bop bop ba-dah-dah dah-dah..." I'm sitting on that couch in the dark, my next-door neighbor is pounding on the wall, and I can't get up to turn it down! I am not prepared for this - I haven't even heard the chorus and I'm like - what? St. Theresa in Ecstasy? Jesse Orosco at the bottom...