Word: pompadour
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...graceful, fluid motion, floats her offstage. The gesture promises a lovers' private communion. Yet, in the end, it turns out to be only funning foreplay: the stranger, it seems, is less interested in the lady of the house than he is in regaining his sunglasses and patting his pompadour back into place...
...almost June, and still no Commencement speaker, but Aloian is confident: "Rome wasn't built in a day, you know. We've got time." Regrets so far include A. Bartlett Giamatti, Jerry Falwell, George C. Marshall, John McEnroe, Paul "Bear" Bryant, George's Pompadour, Buzz Aldrin, and Megan Marshack...
...need for a bit of privacy and built the Grand Trianon, a modest 72-room hideaway of pink and green marble, a mile and a half away. That edifice, in turn, inspired the Petit Trianon, a 30-room cottage that Louis XV built for his mistress Madame de Pompadour in 1762. When Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette fell victim to the French Revolution in 1789, so did Versailles: its paintings were carted off, its tapestries ripped apart for the gold thread, and its furniture sold. In 1830, 15 years after the monarchy was restored, French officials were clamoring to raze...
...DAYS swing onward, galumph, galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snowless Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this...
...then Elvis might not make a lot of sense, except as some sort of defiant yahoo, some blazing anachronism. After all, by the time most of us got to him, he looked pretty silly in those white jump suits with the high collars, and that plasticene pompadour. He was singing in Vegas then--our most improbable city--or out in Honolulu, doing "Heartbreak Hotel" with a three hundred instrument string section complete with French horns. It wasn't Elvis. We thought it was and that's why we thought it was stupid. All those hundreds of thousands of leisure suited...