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...other law kicks in when, partly because of the intensity of White House media coverage, the incumbent begins to grate on your nerves. By the time George Bush the Elder left the White House, you were tired of him and tired of Kennebunkport and tired of all those numbingly respectable Cabinet officers who looked as if they'd all gone to Andover together. And you were sick to death of that wretched dog. You were starting to miss the buccaneering days of the Reagan Administration, during which TIME once devoted several pages to mug shots of all the Reagan officials...
...define Hefner wholly in terms of other bands because their inoffensive songs sound thoroughly derivative. Nothing's new, but nothing's unlistenable. Closest to unlistenable are "The Librarian," wherein Mr. Harding's vocals grate irritatingly over a harmonica, and "Tactile," a too-lengthy acoustic-like drag. "The Sweetness Lies Within" and "A Hymn for the Postal Service" display lovely guitar-work. "Love Will Destroy Us in the End"--despite containing the line "We feel so empty and our late twenties should be better times"--is pleasantly anthemic, the best three-minute pop song on the record. Or at least...
While noting what he called the "special features" of Leverett--backing to Memorial Drive, a heating grate near an entrance that attracts the homeless in cold weather, the difficulty of securing and isolating non-common areas in Leverett Towers and the number of small children of resident tutors--Georgi announced that access to all common areas of the house would be available from 8 a.m. to midnight...
...Best 9 out of 17 will win the title. He offers social consciousness. I counter with childhood innocence. I serve inner wisdom, and he parries with the same. We are tied at 7:7. Then he pulls ahead by two and wins with this: "Old man on steam grate./ Frozen rain coats city street./ Footsteps whisper past...
Glenn E. Lucas, the associate dean for advancement and planning at UCSB's College of Engineering, said Narayanamurti's connections in business and government allow him to inte- grate science with these fields...