Word: barreled
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...hundred tinted water glasses just weren’t as interesting as a dozen narrow metal-rimmed barrels to Lecturer on Education Wendy Richmond and the dancers of Snappy Dance Theater. After all, it’s rather difficult to hang a drinking glass from the ceiling and stand on it, as a Snappy dancer does atop a metal-rimmed barrel in the cover photograph for Overneath, a recently published photography book stemming from a six-month collaboration between Richmond and the Cambridge-based dance company...
Step one of a Snappy Dance-cum-photography project? Find the right props. Richmond set up two installations for the first session, one with the water glasses and one with the narrow metal-rimmed barrels. Richmond, Mason and the other Snappy dancers ultimately decided on the barrels—which were originally used in the textile industry to hold cotton—because, after all, the barrel is a more versatile instrument: you can stand on it, throw it, hang it from the ceiling, roll on it, or stick it on a head, leg or arm. Mason says the barrels...
...officer responded to a barrel fire along with Facilities Maintenance Operations and the Cambridge Fire Department (CFD). CFD extinguished the fire...
...most subtly resonant of the rugs are those in which a rocket launcher replaces a traditional filigree theme, a tank substitutes for an octagon, or a minaret is swapped for a gun barrel?those where the war has just begun to impose itself on an otherwise eternal field. The changed landscape of these carpets echoes the changed landscape of the weavers' own countryside: a sky that had seen so few commercial jetliners becomes filled with bombers and missiles. In some of the later rugs, war machinery overwhelms the entire weave. All the traditional imagery has been obliterated, leaving two giant...
...Ganging up on Harvard is like shooting a fish in a barrel,” he said, explaining that very few votes come from Harvard and that locals are often eager to bash the school...