Word: ago
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer. A few weeks ago, five black steps appeared. Dusted in footprints, but still mud-free enough to showcase their newness, the steps have proven popular. Strangely though, no one seems to want to take credit for the deed. Loews denies installing the steps and the Fresh Pond Shopping Center's legal consultant, William M. O'Brien, declines to comment at all on the matter. Vivian, a ticket seller at the movie theater, was cut off by her superiors before she could reveal what she knew, but acknowledged that the stairs are gaining a following. "It was about time they...
...Play-full? Do you embrace only the handed-down adult games now, the formalized convoluted expressions of drives that you used to express by yourself? Do you skip? Is there a place for unfallen sexual play in your life? Or just fucking? What would I have done 300 years ago for the equivalent shock tactic of a swear word? Why is free and unpredictable movement so threatening on subways? Should I mind when a toddler hurls itself at my crotch and vomits on my wide-wale corduroys...
...Wherever I live, I throw a blanket over any TV or computer screen not in use. Nobody 80 years ago had to deal with this ugly glass orb staring all day long, bloodshot with potential demands and static, so why should I? Why doesn't it bother people more...
...exhort you now to learn about your institution. It's not the biggest news, but go comb through the Crimson archives and find out that students picketed for hot breakfasts in the '70s, that a Funk Concert Happening did it in your earhole in Dunster a decade ago, or that Terrence Malick '66 was busy with his Husserl and Heidegger thesis before Badlands. When was the Red Line extended to Harvard Square? And do you know your American history? That is, ad campaigns from...
...answers, we have the scientific straight and narrow if we wish, or we can page through literary traditions, or social practice, or minutiae. Our critics can tend to be our history-keepers if we're not careful, simply because they bother to remember what happened more than five years ago...