Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every time Quad residents wait at the curb near Johnston Gate or the Science Center, hearts leap. Is that monolith coming around the corner our shuttle? No, it's a Greyhound bus. Is that rattle-and-hum our shuttle? No, it's a snowplow. Is that knight in shining armor on wheels our shuttle...
Under a night sky illumined by the snows of March, the bobcat prowled. Quite agitated was the meager yet solid machine as it pushed the ever-accumulating snow toward the curb...
...curb is not as important as the street and is, therefore, the proper repository for such a temporal inconvenience which, less than three months ago, we had longingly awaited. By now, the snow has become tiresome; it is a guest who has stayed too long. In other parts of the world, March brings rain showers. In Cambridge, all is buried beneath the flood of frozen water, though it never does seem frozen but instead seems softened, malleable. This is how the bobcats were busy moving the snow from the street to the curb...
...Ashe in 1992 and broke the story that Ashe had aids. Forbes has called the Census Bureau's detailed questionnaires an "outrage," asked for a law guaranteeing the privacy of medical records in our computer age and fought the idea of a national ID card that proponents say would curb illegal immigration. "The loss of privacy," Forbes argued, "outweighs any gains...
...money. It has fallen into a sewer grate, tantalizingly out of reach. In dramatizing her efforts to get the money back, the film shows that no one can want anything as much as a child does. No one can be so desperate, endearing, selfish. Razieh is a maven of curb-level politics, a born haggler. She'd be a demon at any yard sale...