Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What has happened to the Crimson? Why is a team with nine returning starters from last year's Final Four squad--picked by many as the top team in the nation--struggling? Is it the injuries that have plagued Harvard so far this season? The goal-scoring problems? Bad breaks...
...tropical rain forest in the aisle," says Riley. Sometimes the plane seems to fly about as well as a log in one of those rain forests, and reporters have nervously taken to timing its takeoffs. The plane has no stove, so there are no hot meals. Not so bad, you say? Riley's rejoinder: "Try swallowing chicken teriyaki cold...
...those faucets you have to keep pushing down, so there's not much water either. That's just as well, the hand dryer (you thought maybe they'd have paper towels?) being busted. The two of you exit damply, wondering, Can public rest rooms in America really be this bad...
...public rest rooms in America really are this bad. But you already knew that. You've been in cities where they don't exist or can't be found. You've eaten in restaurants where the sign in the grimy broom-closet rest room says EMPLOYEES MUST WASH THEIR HANDS, but you hope they don't because it could only make things worse...
...question is Why are public rest rooms so bad? And today's case study is Washington, home of the best and the worst in public facilities. (The museums along the Mall contain what may be the world's densest concentration of well- kept public rest rooms. And then there is the rest of the city.) With us for a short orientation is Alexander Kira, a professor of architecture at Cornell. Kira is the utter antithesis of public rest-room grunge -- a dapper, courtly figure who carries a silver case for his imported cigarettes and keeps a silk handkerchief...