Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several months, the door of a student residence in Grays Hall displayed a two-page print out from the Web site of Maxim magazine. The document, called the "Maxim Manifesto," can be viewed at http://www.maximmag.com/1.1-/HTML/list.html. For the record, the first floor of Grays Hall houses only male students. The Manifesto reads as follows...
...yesterday at the front door to Eliot House, something entirely new had burst onto the campus poster scene. Disguising itself as an ordinary poster, the blinding orange flier nearly blended in with all of the "Take Back the Night" posters until its bold, screaming words came into full view: "RESUME CONTEST...
...passing cars have started to take notice of the crowds and many slow down to stare, others actually ask what's up, and others just heckle. A delivery van stops at the light, and its door slides open...
...give me your MTV-logoed North Face parka, and I'll cough up a nickel for your disadvantaged friend." No deal. The line again shuffles forward. We bid Judd Hirsch adieu and greet the cast next door...
...addition, say some observers, the commission is looking more and more like a stablehand closing the barn door when the horse is just grazing in the yard. Even though the commission is likely to recommend a cooling-off period, analysts say the industry is already lukewarm at best. The reason: Gambling expansion has slowed in recent years. The public is losing interest, lottery ticket sales are flat for the first time in three decades, and expansion was a nonstarter in several state ballot boxes last November. Even the gambling mecca itself, Las Vegas, is trying to remake itself...