Word: digressions
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...received criticism for its advertising campaigns, which feature nubile young things outfitted in knee-high socks and posing as if they were in a low budget 70s-era porno. Well, I actually liked that part. But I digress...
...common objection is that student choice will digress into a mindless pursuit of an easy A. This claim is ill-founded. Students already seek out easy core classes, and lower workloads do not necessarily translate into inferior classes. An extra chapter of reading or a problem set per week doesn’t mean that the course will affect the way the student views the world in a greater...
...digress about the fitness thing. Our seats happened to be positioned by one of the side stage annexes, and Madonna performed two songs about 20 feet away. The woman is in the kind of shape that makes you wonder when she DOESN'T work out. She had muscles in her legs that anatomists have not previously diagrammed. True, after singing and dancing for 20 minutes she needed to towel off backstage, and in her absence we were left with abstract modern dance pieces that made Shanghai Surprise look like a cogent piece of storytelling. But for 47? Good lord...
...inability to apply my brain and pen more pressing academic topics in the column, such as the ethics of laptop usage in class, questioning the value of study abroad programs, and activism on campus. It also takes me about five times as long to write a paper, but I digress...
...paper—which, I’ll allow, sounds pretty goddamn nasty—and trip for a long time. Apparently what evolved as a deadly poison to most of nature’s predators provokes not-unpleasant hallucinations for humans. At least, this guy said so. I digress, perhaps, but my point is: toads are freaking sweet. I damn near hallucinated over the fact that Toad charges no cover, yet books musicians who rock. I arrived during the set of some obscure, yet awesome, New Haven-based band whose name escapes me. It featured...