Word: aquarium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mufti. His voice, which sounded like a thunderclap wanting to purr, could be heard on cool novelties like Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. His cheeks expanded so far past normal size when he played his horn that he looked, on the bandstand, as if he were on exhibit in an aquarium...
...will demand a lot of work. Eastern Europe's conversion from communist central planning to democratic market economies is one of the most difficult undertakings imaginable. As the Carnegie Endowment's National Commission referred to it in a report last July, "You can make fish soup out of an aquarium, but you can't make an aquarium out of fish soup...
...Harborwalk is a blue painted line that willtake you from the Old State House to museums andlandmarks along the Boston waterfront includingthe Children's Museum, the New England Aquarium(T: Aquarium) and the Boston Tea Party Ship...
...Winnebago contains the distilled essence of an elementary school. There is Elmer's glue, board games, a teaching clock, a green blackboard with big white stamped letters, crayons, scissors, math books, everything except an aquarium...
...certain distance from them and seeing them from above -- or at least, from a spot well to the side of their lives. His work does not "identify," as the cliche goes, with the folk at the Moulin Rouge. He watched them as one might watch fish in an aquarium, fascinated by their colors and movements and finding irony in their routines of spawning and social display...