Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Moses on the cities of America was greater than that of any other person." Like Frederick Law Olmsted, the 19th century landscape architect who built Manhattan's Central Park, Moses believed in the democratizing effect of recreation. His goal was not simply to preserve beauty or connect neighborhoods, but to change the way the common man lived. His vision, alas, was sometimes misguided. A champion of the automobile (though he always had a chauffeur and never learned to drive), Moses hated mass transit. He designed parkways on Long Island with overpasses too low to allow buses. He also...
...Hint: connect the centers of the circles to form a triangle, which turns out to be a similarly aligned shrunken (or homothetic, as mathematicians say) version of the original triangle...
...best tunes is a fierce evocation of the Miami riots of 1980 done "dub" style. Dub is reggae dressed down, and Jeffreys has lately taken to wearing his hair in the braided dreadlocks favored by Jamaican Rastafarians. That is more than a gesture of style. It helps connect him a little more closely to the music. After all this time, it gives him a sense of community. Of belonging. Garland Jeffreys has found his own way home...
...this point, the Crimson offense had begun to gel as passes started to connect and as UMass began to slow down a bit. But Harvard was still unable to keep the pressure on long enough to put the game out of reach, and the Minutemen tied the score at 4-4 just before the half...
What they have done to temporarily alleviate the problem is connect the boat house to the wall with metal chains. This boat-house-on-a-leash can't escape, but it can continually slam into the concrete wall, not the safest of feelings when you're inside...