Word: airs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ruby, oh Ruby. She sits cross-legged on a rug in her room and watches the wallpaper slide. In her mind are the sorts of things dreamt by sea creatures. But the things she hears! Music that hasn't been made with such an air of vintage and heartfelt wist since America came down from the frantic high of the '60s and the outrageous trip of the '70s. No more Lucies in the skies, no more fields of strawberries; only Ruby walking alone through her wallpaper tracks with the ghosts of a faded age, shaking hands with Kinks, Beatles...
Dracula is indeed a spectacle in the glitzy, multi-media, '90s sense of the word. Multiple brides fly through the air at a rather astonishing pace, a full-sized carriage careens dangerously across the set, gallons of fog are blown onto the stage, and the audience is treated to a rare display of indoor pyrotechnics. So in short, Disney meets The Boston Ballet...
...paper in public. You're probably right. It's a waste of time that could be spent doing productive things, like writing a paper or searching for a job. But in the gathering twilight, it's a beautiful sight--the graceful kick, the white toilet ball sailing into the air, the arching catch. I honestly don't remember the last time I had so much fun. Due to sweeping demand, we're thinking or organizing a toilet ball championship to be held every spring: the Quincy Toilet Bowl...
Playing toilet ball, like strumming a five-string guitar, must be its own reward. We do it because we love the feel of grass under our feet, the smell of lilac in the air. We play because we know that with only a month left until graduation, the marginal utility of an hour spent studying is less than that of an hour spent playing outside. We kick the tender two-ply tissue because it makes us laugh. We retrieve it from the bushes because somebody has to. We love it because somebody has to. We love it because...
...killed and 5,000 wounded, double the previous figures -- the enlargement may be designed to prepare the Serbs for a compromise by Milosevic. For NATO, the political dynamic may be getting easier, with 50 days of continual attacks having made the Western public more accustomed to the air war over Kosovo. "The key thing there is lack of casualties," says Thompson. "As in the slow-simmering war over Iraq, the West can endure as long there aren't boys coming home in body bags." Serb media stunts won't change that. Besides, CNN revealed Thursday that it had lost...