Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anonymous door is slowly pushed aside to reveal a slightly colder atmosphere. The chill resides not only in the depressed temperature but also in the stasis of the objects, the artificial lighting. You are now inside the Fogg Art Museum cold storage facility. Located in the basement of the museum, cold storage is not only a repository for the leftover masterpieces of the Fogg's ever-burgeoning collection, but is also the surrogate home of Mark Rothko's mythical Harvard murals. Unlike its fellow occupants, the Rothko murals, wrapped twice over in heavy, light-blocking plastic, have emerged only...
...playing things that I don't like. I think that is where I would draw the line with my career; if I ever started doing that, then it would become a job. But at the same time you want people in the club; you want people coming through the door, and for your radio broadcast you certainly want people listening, so you have to keep that in mind without compromising your own integrity. You definitely want to play what you love, and hopefully, if you're lucky, other people will like what you're playing and everything works...
...hours a week, compared to as much as 100 at larger banks. At the biggest firms, the partners conduct "bed checks"--stopping by each cubicle at 9 p.m. to make sure analysts are still at work. At Broadview, I'm assured, you might even get out the door by 7 on a good day. The style is strictly "business casual," which means no one under 30 wears a tie. Shemmer stresses how friendly the senior partners are, how receptive they are to analysts. It sounds suspiciously like a PR presentation for a hapless recruit. (Of course you'll have access...
Opening the door to their 26-degree workshop, Georgs explains their daily routine. He grips a chisel with his glove, and gestures toward large blocks of partially carved ice, describing the typical projects they undertake. Most of the carvings are for events like weddings, birthday parties and bar mitzvahs...
...observe the atomized "community" here at Harvard College. Look at that girl you see every day on the way to the Science Center who stares at the ground as if it were talking to her. You know the one I'm talking about. Or see if anyone holds the door open for you on the way into Sanders Theater...