Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lowell House Senior Tutor Alexandra Barcus, who was also in attendance, called the party "a blast...
...political act. His ancestors came over in the bottom of the boat, the generation before him rode in the back of the bus, and he sure isn't going to go out handcuffed in the rear of a police car. The first song, When Will They Shoot?, is a blast of fear and loathing to a thumping metallic beat. "Will they do me like Malcolm?" Ice Cube asks. "Uncle Sam is Hitler without an oven . . . The KKK has got three-piece suits...
...frequently brought the distinctly unjoyous prospect of Irish Republican Army terrorism. 1992 is already part of that deadly tradition. At the height of Thursday's morning rush hour, two bombs exploded in central Manchester, injuring 64 people. Most of the victims were hit by flying glass in the second blast after they had sought refuge from the first near the city's Anglican cathedral. Police, citing phoned messages, blamed the I.R.A...
...promise of a bright future, Margaret Bourke-White went to the Soviet Union to capture the seismic changes of a society bent on forging itself anew. The country was a mystery then, and her photographs and journal entries, excerpted here, laid bare the dedication and raw muscle fueling a blast furnace of a nation as it struggled out of feudalism. Sixty years later, TIME invited Anthony Suau to retrace Bourke-White's journey. If her pictures were the positive, his are the negative. The Russia that emerges from Suau's frames is a land of shabbiness and despair -- images...
...Less than two years ago, there had been nothing in the whole countryside but a few primitive villages. Then geologists discovered the richest iron ore in the world. Now the blast furnaces tower, prickly with wooden scaffolding. In a wasteland these furnaces are rising, the highest man-built structures the workers have ever seen...