Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the squad practiced Thursday morning on the astroturf at B.U., Springfield's artificial surface caused some problems for the ball-control oriented Crimson. While the booters adjusted to the wildly skidding balls and lack of friction on the carpet, the kick-and-run Chiefs jumped out to a short-lived 1-0 lead...
...still is--the facility that is supposed to fuel the regeneration of Crimson roundball. The new-old arena with the magical, suspended on air, removeable astroturf carpet suitable for winner baseball practice is supposed to lure big-time high school players and biggertime college teams to Harvard basketball...
...deep shadows and white gravel roads. Their borders were sprinkled with wild roses and ring-necked pheasants whose vivid fall plumage is just beginning to erupt. The dense stands of hybrid corn, with stalks 10-ft. high, are so well nourished with fertilizers that they look like flawless cut carpet laid meticulously from fence to fence. Not in local memories, which go back nearly 80 years, is there such a picture of natural harmony...
...some Kirkland House students built a disco dance floor in their room, complete with strobes and turbo-charged stereos. Every night, they danced. all through the fall semester, even though their dance floor was also the ceiling of the Master's bedroom. Finally they were called on the carpet. Their punishment? They would have to dismantle the dance floor...
...barely see for the myth. It was so quickly generated. So quickly canonized. When you ask people why they came they are reluctant to talk. It takes a while before it sinks in. They want to be left alone. Here, in the terrible neon on the plush vinyl-smelling carpet, surrounded by sensory input--they want to be left alone. They just want to remember...