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...captivity--the need to shut out the scant sunlight that enters the room because your half-naked physique might offend a passer-by. And, if it is afternoon and you can reasonably assume no "inappropriateness" will be going on, your open shades are greeted by telephoto lenses and the criss-cross pattern of the window screen on a stranger's nose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The View From Here | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

...makers of the "The Frighteners" are apparently that breed of intrepid, cost-cutting pioneers who have decided that the story should be the first to go in trimming the fat from bloated production budgets. So many weak little plot lines criss-cross and entangle as surely as extension cords that we wish that one of Bannister's friends, a refugee from the 70's, would appear so that we could grab his ample lapels and shake some sense into the movie...

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: Latest Fox Flick Is Abominable | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...presidential candidates continue to criss-cross the country campaigning for votes, the Institute of Politics (IOP) is gearing up to get students involved in the election season with new blood and fresh ideas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IOP Selects 14 New Members to SAC | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...says real discourse has barely begun. The book provides ample evidence that most encounters between humans have been "missed opportunities." History, he notes, "has so far largely been a chronicle of ability gone to waste." Nonetheless, he believes that "the earth is in the early stages of being criss-crossed afresh by invisible threads, threads uniting individuals who differ by all conventional criteria but who are finding they have aspirations in common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCRATES WOULD TAKE HEART | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

Lastly, The Crimson editorial points out that Weld "authorized" an education reform act and "signed into law" a school choice plan. These laws were written by none other than Roosevelt. He spent a year of this life criss-crossing the state to build up support for these measures, while Bill Weld spent his afternoons on the squash court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mistaken Support of Weld | 11/5/1994 | See Source »

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