Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Hands reach inside the Suburban, eager to touch Fox, even though the bodyguards are quickly cranking up the windows. In the backseat, Fox's sleek and bronzed daughter, Ana Cristina, 20, looks scared that the windows might burst under the hammering from Fox's aficionados. "My father," she says with as much worry as pride, "is a phenomenon." By now, Fox is busy flashing the V sign to passing cars, while at the same time combing confetti out of his brown hair and swigging orange Gatorade. Something has to give, and it's the Gatorade, which Fox sloshes all over...
...Though I'd never sailed on a river before, I reasoned that the Thames had to be wider than the Charles. I thought it must be more like an ocean than a river really--it was probably identical to the San Francisco Bay. I knew from history classes that the Thames was the famed departure point for weighty galleons travelling to and from distant colonies loaded with raw materials on their way in, departing with holds full of finished goods...
...short people on the train that will be forced, like it or not, to smell your armpit. You hope to God that it lasts all day and through the ride home. If it doesn't, you hope to God that they don't blame you for it, even though you know that there really isn't anything...
...Though he will not be offering any classes next fall, Hamburger will teach two classes--one graduate and one undergraduate--in the spring. The undergraduate course will be a survey of medieval art and architecture...
...streets were empty as all of Havana crowded around TV sets, and I don't know if there was a dry eye in the city. Usually there's a soap opera on TV at that time, and everybody complains when it's not shown - but even though they're just showing the footage of Elian's return over and over, people are still glued to their sets. Even the correspondents at the airport were crying like children at the overwhelming display of emotion by Elian's great-grandfather and his grandparents as they welcomed him home...