Word: barrenness
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...Fenerlis knows, the baseball hat has many purposes. The inside of a cap can offer a haven to shield the hairless or those who have become follicularly challenged. Khoi T. Luu '94 says he has been wearing a baseball hat recently to cover his mostly barren head...
...always a dependable ally. Like young Maciek in Wartime Lies, Ben can never come to terms with his tragic past. It drains his personal attachments and achievements of their joy and meaning. Excerpts from his correspondence and unmailed jottings fill up with foreboding and descriptions of himself as "barren, dark and desperate...
Such reasoning has particular appeal in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas was born and remains strongest: there 780,000 Palestinians live on a cramped, barren swath of sand where jobs are few and living conditions harsh. Says "Omar," the 30-year-old product of a Gaza slum and now a Hamas activist: "I am a man with no home, no land, and so I have no identity. Islam gives me that identity...
...washed-up swashbuckling movie star, raddled with debauchery yet oddly innocent. The man journeyed hours to glimpse an estranged daughter but did not dare speak to her and dismissed his screen heroism as fakery until he thrillingly discovered that it, like all art, came from deep within. The barren Broadway musical of MY FAVORITE YEAR, which opened last week, turns O'Toole's holy hellion into a soulless self-pitier (a deft if charmless Tim Curry) and wrongly presumes that the film's appeal was its setting amid a '50s TV variety show -- a format joylessly re-created...
...hopes, our dreams. Our day in the Yard searching for happiness. A year spent mostly at the Crimson, it's been found, can be permanently damaging--some might say mind-numbing. As soon as one issue is done and we hurtle out of the building on our bikes onto barren Mass Ave, we have to start thinking about the next week's mag. It's a killer cycle, which is why we deserve this space and have, for the past year, reserved it for a little self-indulgent rambling. But, we thought, why ramble with words, when pictures could...