Word: creeped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fact, in almost all aspects of modern Harvard life, vestiges of Harvard’s past creep in like Charles Dickens’ first ghost of Christmas who comes to scare the Scrooge. In a time when the world around us is changing faster than Paris Hilton’s boyfriends (consider the internet, DVD’s, and the recent cloning of a dog), I for one find it particularly comforting to know that my own college experience will be almost hauntingly similar to that of the men who walked the halls of Sever and Emerson over 50 years...
...sound of country music makes you violently ill, you probably should steer clear, but if your dislike doesn’t verge on utter loathing, you may want to give the film a chance. The man’s story is compelling in itself, and the music will creep under your skin enough that you might just find yourself tapping your toes to the beat by the end of the film...
Less, because most of the play is about fairly mundane events: the bulk of the woman’s narrative focuses on her marriage to a much older man, his death, her subsequent employments and romances, her friendships, and the places that she lived. The political elements first creep into the play near its end—in the brief mentions of her son’s mysterious activities—and then become overwhelming and tragic in the last 20 minutes...
...outfitted 10 closets, from bedroom to mud room, in her home in Northbrook, Ill. "I know it's a complete luxury," she says of her white melamine shelves with room for as many as 200 pairs of shoes. "But it seems to have become a necessity." Call it closet creep. Says Perfection Custom Closets owner Tim O'Hagan, who is working with O'Gara: "It sounds hokey, but when you've got a place for everything and everything's in its place, you feel better...
...endless, inescapable vacuum without air or light. Unlike more conventional horror stories set among high school kids, where each one gets "offed" by a masked killer, Black Hole uses the worst parts of emerging adulthood, like changing bodies, alienation and sex, as the sources for a skin-crawling creep fest that will likely be the best graphic novel of the year...