Word: communally
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Whatever the reason, plenty of people will pay to play with food. At the Vinoklet Winery in Cincinnati, Ohio, couples laugh and chat at the vast communal grill while poking their slabs of mahimahi or steak. Kreso Mikulic, the mustachioed owner, bellows out advice: "A knife! You have to cut it with a knife." Setting their first date here helped kindle romance two years ago for Ali Dehner and Jeffrey Pfirrmann. "It was a good icebreaker," says Dehner...
...treadmills. Unless you score a single in Cabot and embrace a hermitic lifestyle, chances are that the shower is your only guaranteed source of privacy throughout college. (As a rower, I don’t often enjoy even that small dose of seclusion: Newell Boathouse’s communal shower is the norm...
...interviewed Michael Dolan, author of ?The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal Place,? and accompanied him on visits to a number of Southern homes. The gentry still have front porches (some skirting three sides of the house), still sit out there and gas, keeping alive the oral-communal tradition. We learn that the porch is making a comeback, gradually replacing its humbler rival the deck, which the traditionalist Dolan refers to as ?the platform shoe or leisure suit of American architecture...
...coats on,” said Julio E. Guzman ’05, a Mather resident who for the past few days has noticed a thin coat of ice spreading across his window. “It’s not cold in my room anymore, but in the communal areas it’s still chilly...
Cool, of course, comes at a price. Botway's room sets her parents back $6,270 a school year. Shared rooms in older McCormick Hall cost just $2,842. But at McCormick, cinder-block rooms line narrow corridors, bathrooms are communal, and lighting is fluorescent--in other words, it's just a regular dorm. "There was no way I was going to live there," Botway says with a shudder. "It's dark, depressing, and everything smells." Mom stands by her: "We've scraped it together because we felt it was more important to have her in a healthy environment," says...