Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After much thought, I've discovered that learning Spanish and studying the history of Mexico are purely academic pursuits, not excuses to impress women. This girl piqued my interest in Mexican culture because she was Mexican herself, not so much because she talked about Mexico or Mexicans particularly. It was just that after meeting her, I recognized that even though Harvard has a healthy Latino population, as well as courses on Latin American culture, I knew nothing of that culture and sincerely wanted to learn. In other words, that girl was the alpha or the catalyst to my interest...
Until this year, Sammy Sosa was widely considered to be a Big Creep. The rap was that he was a selfish player, a braggart who couldn't deliver when it counted. Last year, up for a new contract and trying to impress his owners with gaudy numbers, he hit 36 homers but made a mess of it on the way, leading the league in strikeouts, having a worse on-base percentage than some pitchers and being so reckless on the bases that his normally mellow manager had to scream at him in the dugout on live television. His obsession with...
...part of the reason he can relax is that he can safely put his entire family's financial nightmares behind him. He can play for those nobler causes--team and honor--that we Americans are rich enough to have invented. Sure, Sosa was looking out for himself--trying to impress his boss--but was that really so bad? And is he really different now, or are we just more tolerant because he's delivering? Isn't humility just the moment when accomplishment outweighs cockiness...
Personal ads can make for interesting reading. Brief, often disjointed attempts at self-description, the ads aim to present an entire person by mentioning several characteristics and interests. Now, imagine the typical personal ad. Expand it to 10, maybe 20 pages. Replace the desire to impress with a commitment to candor. Picture the ad being written by someone who aspires to be a professional writer. In such a transformation every characteristic, every interest that would be presented in the shorter ad, will be explained, analyzed, connected to other traits, to past experiences, to future aspirations. Put together twenty of these...
Three minimalist clowns expressing existential discomfort doesn't sound like a funny pitch. That's because it has the word clowns in it. But watching these three guys try to impress a casting director by head-butting a ham through a paper target, or a female audience member by singing, dancing and yelling "Look at me!" is the brainiest physical comedy in a long time. Their performance skills are Cirque du Soleil quality (one of them, Michael Dahlen, is a member of the surreal mime troupe the Blue Man Group), and even they hope to bring their slacker vaudeville...