Word: dungeon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Science. I'm not referring to medical miracles; I'm talking social isolation. Become a pre-med or a science concentrator and you can spend your four years at Harvard living peacefully at Cabot Library and the rest of your life in a dungeon lab. You'll be among others whose hairlines have been pushed way back by the stress of taking organic chemistry. You'll find that nobody will notice whether you have hair or not. You'll find that nobody will care...
...outside a warehouse in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, the men were looking for Huan ("Danny") Teng, 38, a Taiwanese believed to be one of America's kingpins of drug paraphernalia. They never found Teng, but what they discovered inside the building left them breathless. It was a vast, dungeon- like factory filled with machines for injecting, cooling and grinding plastic. Three Chinese workers in ragged garb glanced at their visitors just once before getting back to the business at hand: running an around-the-clock assembly line capable of producing 2 million crack vials a day, worth an estimated...
There Freeman found steady employment. He sometimes did what he calls dungeon work, appearing in small workshop productions in dusty church basements and drafty warehouse lofts, but he also performed in an all-black cast of Hello Dolly! and with a multiracial theater company at the New York Shakespeare Festival. "He had very good speech, bore himself with a certain grace and looked like a king," recalls producer Joseph Papp...