Word: dank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very smart, very pretty girlfriend (Tyra Banks), who is coolly intent on using the system to her advantage; a young white woman (Kristy Swanson), victimized by date rape, tempted by lesbianism, ultimately redeemed and betrayed by her idealistic political activism; a socially maladroit loner (Michael Rapaport), who finds a dank spiritual home with the local neo- Nazis. The rapper Ice Cube is on hand as a perpetual graduate student and guru to the black activists. Laurence Fishburne represents adult authority as an arrogant, challenging and ultimately wise and sympathetic political-science professor...
...Fine," the viewer thinks, "Another day in the life of multi-cultural America. Gee, we sure are diverse." But Cultures and Contexts is not a tired attempt to trot out all that is 'multi-cultural' from the dank basements of Mother Harvard, it is a thoughtful, if somewhat cramped, exploration of the problems that arise when adopting this diversity. "Many art museums now rush to embrace contextualization without recognizing or acknowledging that definitions of contexts themselves can be called into question," Burgard notes in the excellent gallery guide accompanying the exhibition...
...members of Harvard's women's softball team came out on top at Soldier's field, going 2-1 over the weekend. The Crimson (16-25) hoisted themselves ever closer to the top of their dark, dank losing cellar with a doubleheader split against Brown on Saturday and a decisive victory over UMass Lowell in singlegame action yesterday...
Perhaps if the Indy editor had enjoyed the spacious mansion on 14 Plympton Street for the last few years instead of that dank Canaday basement, he wouldn't harbor such destructive tendencies...
Winthrop House has the authentic overcrowded, dank flavor of a turn of the century immigrant ghetto; Mather evokes the impersonal oppressiveness of the projects...