Word: cladding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...facility's beds are filled. "People can't come anymore because gas is so expensive," explains administrator Claudette Munro. "If they arrive here, it's to die." In the hospital's morgue, Munro pulls open a drawer holding the bodies of eight children. A newborn lies on top, still clad in pink knit baby booties. Next to him is the body of a young boy, whose ribs are so clearly visible they can be counted through the dead skin. "His father brought him in yesterday," explains Munro. "We gave him an IV. He opened his eyes finally -- and died...
Often the changes aren't exactly germane--the new Armani Cafe on Newbury Street, with its black-clad, chablis-sipping malcontents struggling to get tables on the sidewalk, just doesn't make sense in a city where high society remains unseen. The Other Side Cafe moved into the Back Bay fully intent on bringing Seattle grunge to Boston; once its owners realized that Bostonians didn't need (and, in their famously parochial way, didn't want) imported culture, they toned the grunge down...
Instead, she attended Bach concerts at Symphony Hall. And one fateful night, her musical forays paid off. In the tuxedo-clad ranks of the Harvard Glee Club, she found love at first sight...
...sappiest Harvard-related flick, a title currently held by the laughable "Love Story." Why is it that anytime a Harvard alum tries to pull off a heart-warming story about his alma mater, the result is, shall we say, less than inspiring? Perhaps because behind these ivy-clad walls, nothing interesting enough goes on to carry a halfway interesting movie...
...A.N.C.'s top echelon is mostly moderate, almost 50% of its 1 million rank-and- file members are in the militant camp. If reforms begin to slip and there is no tangible progress in a year or so, Mandela may find his fiercest challenger is his fiery, camouflage-clad wife. "Winnie," says Tom Lodge, an authority on South African political movements, "is an instinctive populist. She will tell the masses what they want to hear...