Word: bus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raising his hand. He didn't even have to lay down in front of the cars or do other passive-aggressive things to get into the cab. Nothing after this was believable, because every person in the movie theatre knows that the brother would have had to take the bus to his next rendezvous point. Then he would have been late so nothing else would have gone according to plan. Plots just can't maneuver around this little law of nature. There's physics and there's cab protocol. They can't feed lies like that to the American public...
...made it seem as though you were not in Jordan Hall, but in a Sony Theatre. As patrons sat with their necks outstretched and their shoulders leaning forwards, they resembled an audience that might have been anticipating Bruce Willis to defuse a bomb or Keanu Reeves to board a bus--not four smallish string players on the verge of completing a crescendo. And yet it was the very creation of anticipation by those four smallish string players that elevated the concert from music making to story telling. Adhering to Haydn's tenet that a modern string quartet "should engage...
...Monday, an amazing thing happened to me on the shuttle bus from the Quad to the Yard. It restored my faith in Harvard students as people with compassion and generous spirits. I am writing this letter because I have no other way of thanking the person who helped me so unselfishly, since she would not tell me her name...
...other musical genre of the last 50 years seems to have its place on the radio today. But those of us who did some major growing up in this period must now rely on the tunes in our head or on our dusty tape collections to bring back those bus rides to camp when we sang along to "Paradise City," or those hours camped out in our rooms with "Bad Medicine" blaring. For those of us who were just tuning in for real when arena rock hit it big, our memory is missing its soundtrack...
...There aren't many jobs left around here, so alot of people commute by bus," she says...