Word: papering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Everyone at Harvard procrastinates," Brinton said. " It's the paper phenomenon. If you assign a paper due in three weeks, no one's going to do it until right before it's due." Brinton said he believed that the number of dues-paying members who had crossed party lines to vote was "minimal...
...Word has it that Meg Ryan banished any girls who had the hots for Russell Crowe on the set of Proof of Life. If anybody even made goo-goo eyes at the guy, she'd have them on the next plane out... I tend to luck out when picking paper topics. For my junior paper for English, I wrote on American Psycho, handing it in a couple weeks before the movie came out. Now, just as I'm immersed in thesis work on postmodern fairy tales and a book called Wicked by Gregory Maguire, I get word that...
Imagine stacks of paper on a basement table; Ashbery's sorting to your left, and Ginsberg's stapling to your right. "Everyone was loose and free and easy," Fagin says of the pseudo-utopia he and his writer friends created. "I know it seems idyllic, but maybe it was." Like the School of Paris in painting, the New York School of Poets-closely linked to emerging abstract expressionist artists-was simply a group of writers defined by their common vocation and narrow geographical living space...
Historians may look back on this year as the thin edge of the e-publishing wedge, the moment when books made of paper and ink began sliding into digital obsolescence. But those not yet ready for the brave new reading world can mark 2000 by the extraordinary output of new fiction from big-name veteran authors, all producing energetic work at age 60 or older: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, John Updike. The year also brought posthumous books by Joseph Heller and Mario Puzo. The millennium...
Sasso passed around a handful of ballot cards--"not from Florida," he assured. Using a paper clip--the same he said was sent in the mail to absentee voters using punch cards--he urged his audience to vote. "Look at them, hold them up," he said, running his finger along the crisp side. "Do you see light...