Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago "for the quiet and the country." But now her home in Du Page County is bracketed by office buildings and a huge shopping mall. A 31-story tower obliterates the view of trees and grass from her windows; its construction, still in progress, has sent clouds of dust and bursts of noise into her home. Laments Murphy: "This is like living in downtown Chicago...
...dust begins to settle after the University's flurry of real estate activity in the last 12 months, HRE's detractors are beginning to ask how Harvard financed the property purchases, what Harvard ultimately plans to do with its new parcels, why the University is not forthcoming about the sales, and what it all means for future prices in the Square's expensive real estate sweepstakes...
Realizing the books were valuable, Cuilla said she was surprised the books had been left to gather dust in a dark corner of Baker. "It wasn't like they were outdated or anything," she said, adding that they still could have been useful tools for ethicists to examine...
...about nostalgia, Barron says, for lint is nostalgic. It is about the fragility of life, and disintegration and death. And yet on the surface it has "the soft look of impressionism." One imagines a sort of shaggy Monet's Flower Garden, done in dust balls...
...weeks. The dead arrive so rapidly that pieces of cardboard, usually stapled with photographs of the fallen, mark burial sites until marble slabs can be put in place. Wives and mothers in chadors, the flowing black robes, move silently through the rows of grave markers, washing the dust away from one, squatting silently by another. Hundreds of Iranian flags flutter above in the breeze...