Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...box at Bright is all set: one section for the Crimson, one section for the Engineers, one section for Coles...
...people who came out of the ticket office were not the same ones I had seen going in. Tickets in hand, Trisha D. Perez '92, who had just complained of acute frostbite, emerged from the box office yelling, "This is totally awesome...
...When I was three, [he] would dress me up in his equipment, stick me in front of a box and shoot pucks at me," Joslin says...
What exactly did Rushdie do to merit such a threat? By Western standards, nothing -- at least nothing that could not be punished with a bad review. But among Muslims, and not just fundamentalists and extremists, there was an almost universal judgment that he had dishonored the faith (see box). Every Muslim critic seemed to have a favorite offending passage from his book. But, in sum, they felt he had insulted the faith, ridiculed the Prophet, trivialized the sacred -- and that the sin was compounded because it was committed by a born, though not a practicing, Muslim...
...device remained for decades an exotic box, a contraption mostly for adventurers and the wealthy. That changed after 1888, the year George Eastman introduced the inexpensive Kodak. Amateur photography became the new folk art, and fine-art practitioners had to scramble for a way to distinguish themselves from the mobs of snapshooters. Their response was pictorialism, an international style of soft focus, poetic yearnings and darkroom tricks that were beyond the abilities of the untrained. During the pictorialist phase of their careers, Alvin Langdon Coburn in England and Edward Steichen in the U.S. turned away from mere realism toward...