Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rooting about in the basement of Widener the other day, newly disappointed by a malfunction in the motorized shelves of Pusey, when I came upon these magazines for the first time. The find was just the pick-me-up I needed. Bounding up the stairs to the circulation desk. I began to wonder who actually subscribed to these magazines--fairly well-designed, professional looking publications, not the sort of thing one imagines lying around on the floor of the neighbors' backyard septic tank turned nuclear shelter...
...activist president has relevance." Clinton sought to paint himself as a moderating influence on the House, and said he had shown "good faith" toward Republicans. Most of the good faith he was speaking of centered on welfare reform. Clinton called for Congress to have a reform bill on his desk by July 4. He said while there was much common ground between the White House and Congress, the current version of welfare reform is too weak on work and too tough on children. Clinton took special pains to portray himself and the Democrats as the party that protects children. Clinton...
Ineffective as these attempts at innovation may be, the attempts at profundity are even more obnoxious. When Angela stands on her desk and declares in monotone "I'm tired of living like this, I know that we are more than this," and finishes her whiny pseudo-deep monologue while climbing on Caleb's shoulders, you can't help wincing. At another point in the production, the house lights come up and the cast sits and stares out into the audience. Even if this were a new dramatic idea, one would still resent it coming from this production. For a play...
...Michael Montoya), of Angela's mother (Zoe Sarnat) in a space-suit and of a liaison between the delivery boy (Damien Reynolds) and Angela's gay coworker (Neil Farnsworth) make up the bulk of the play's activity. The rest of the play features Angela slumped lifelessly at her desk or in bed while a voice-over drones on about her unfulfilling life...
After creaking in on crutches to her office in the High Energy Physics Lab, the only female tenured Harvard professor in the physics department plops herself at her desk in front of pictures of Wonder Woman, modern art and all the undergraduate women in physics sporting warpaint on their faces...