Word: basement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anonymous door is slowly pushed aside to reveal a slightly colder atmosphere. The chill resides not only in the depressed temperature but also in the stasis of the objects, the artificial lighting. You are now inside the Fogg Art Museum cold storage facility. Located in the basement of the museum, cold storage is not only a repository for the leftover masterpieces of the Fogg's ever-burgeoning collection, but is also the surrogate home of Mark Rothko's mythical Harvard murals. Unlike its fellow occupants, the Rothko murals, wrapped twice over in heavy, light-blocking plastic, have emerged only...
...command a great deal of loyalty. Fentrice Driskell '01 did make an impressive vice-presidential candidate last year, and Sterling P.A. Darling '01 is certainly notable for his unique sartorial style and shellacked hair. But neither Driskell nor Darling, nor anyone else seeking the high office of Holworthy basement can really claim to be a campus leader in any genuine sense...
...However, McDonald's has been on the move under new CEO Jack Greenberg, aquiring Tex-Mex and pizza chains in the past year. And it's not taking too much of a risk - if it can't make the 751 Boston Market franchises (which it snatched at a bargain basement price of $131 million) solvent again, it can easily convert some or all of them into McDonald's or other eateries for significantly less than the cost of building new premises. And, who knows, maybe Ronald McDonald will learn from Boston Market - and those spongy McNuggets will more closely resemble...
...death will result from the 5 million bottles of champagne that Americans are expected to drink this New Year's Eve. PMS is a psychological affliction. The Germans, who go in for really long nouns, call it emptiness-from- having-spent-thousands-of-deutsche-marks-(dollars)-stockpiling-the-bunker-(basement)-with-flashlight-batteries-and- spring-water-and-cans-of-tuna-for-no-reason. Heidegger would call it whatnextness, but he is dead...
...airlines may be able to get away with these prices through the holidays, when demand is highest," says Baumohl, "but if the other airlines keep their prices down, Delta and American could be forced to lower prices." Also helping to keep ticket prices competitive: The popularity of bargain-basement ticket vendors such as Priceline.com. Hey, if the airlines continue to be squeezed by such trends, it may force them to do something drastic to lure people on board. Like giving us a whole can of soda...