Word: watcher
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...Some critics now call the Reader smug, self- satisfied, a bit too yuppified, and say it has sacrificed some edge to gain a broader audience. "There's a big chance they will lose their identity," says Samir A. Husni, a University of Mississippi associate journalism professor and magazine watcher. It sounds like the kind of thirtysomething problem that publisher Utne, on his TV-watching days, might appreciate...
...course, every watcher of Carson or Letterman has seen male clowns air the same kind of grievance; provoking mirth for a living has never been a laughing matter. The difference today is in who does the complaining. Observes Poundstone: "A comic was telling me the other day that she thought she had started too late in life. I thought, Geez, this is one of the few areas where that doesn't mean a thing anymore. This has become an ageless, genderless job." Funny she should say that. This is the year that Paula Poundstone becomes 31, and Henny Youngman turned...
...more or less seriously by giving real weight to Fiona's predicament. She is bright and tough, but the pressure of remembering her lines and her lies has worn away her resilience. She worries about going mad, about having already gone mad. Her sometime lover, probably also her KGB watcher, notices her distress and kindly, slyly, asks the reason. " 'I was thinking about my hair,' she said. 'About having it cut shorter.' Men were always ready to believe that women were thinking about their hair...
According to Coop salesperson Pam D. Byron, an avid watcher of student shopping, these first-years are not unusual, as parents often accompany undergraduates on back-to-school sprees...
...ahead, stare at them. Everybody does it here. In fact, it's one of the best activities Cambridge has to offer. If, like most of us, you have a healthy curiosity about the behavior of your fellow human beings, you'll find Harvard Square a people-watcher's paradise, a sort of wildlife preserve of our own species...