Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bicoastal trio stubbornly cling to their surplus pounds. They skip yoga ("Imagine you're a pink cloud," urges the teacher). They miss pool exercises, which involve strenuous efforts to drown plastic balls by pushing them "down ... aaand down .. . aaand harder, again!" During Shintaido, an unlikely hybrid of martial arts and modern dance that starts with an excruciating series of froglike hops, the trio sit in the lobby complaining. They are wondering about flights to Las Vegas when Karma Kientzler finds them...
...Chirico's train has once more entered the city; its black silhouette is plumb in the center of the looming gray facades; a bright ball of vapor hovers directly above its smokestack. Perhaps it comes from the train and is near us. Or possibly it is a cloud on the horizon, lit by the sun that never penetrates the buildings, in the last electric-blue silence of dusk. It contracts the near and the far, enchanting one's sense of space. The early De Chiricos are full of such effects. Et quid amabo nisi quodaenigma es/?(What shall...
...dying. Survivors crawl from wrecked homes to see a more ordinary terror beginning. The only illumination is from house fires; the power is out. Ruptured gas lines explode, setting new blazes, and the flames spread unchecked. Rising overhead now is the catastrophe's explanation: a dark mushroom cloud, already eight miles high...
...which a Harvard undergraduates voted to install a new student are tainted by perverse procedural rules and voting practices. The Faculty, which must re- constitution before it goes into effect, should invalidity and call for a new one. Otherwise, the Undergraduate Council will get underway next fall under a cloud of an illegitimacy born not of student opposition fundamentally anti-democratic electoral process...
...Every cloud has a silver lining, they say, Harvard basketball this year has resembled nothing move than a black and gloomy rain cloud for the Crimson faithful, with the men's varsity playing well below expectations, the women's varsity brandishing a dismal 3-24 record, and the men's J.V. team struggling...