Word: edens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unrelated incident, a student named Eden Jacobowitz shouted at Black sorority women when they made noise outside his dorm one January evening. Among the students who yelled from the dorm that night, Jacobowitz was the only one who admitted he had called to the women. His cry--"Shut up, you water buffalo"--was construed as a racist statement, and he faced an administrative trial on racial harassment charges, brought up by the sorority members and the university. At the eleventh hour, the women dropped their charges against him, and Penn followed suit...
...chief metaphor, as Brenson (who wrote the catalogs for both shows) points out, is "the enchanted forest," which "can be traced back to animistic peoples for whom trees and forests were fearfully and delightfully alive." The tree trunk refers to, and sometimes becomes, the human torso. The "mutilated Eden" of Poland's forest turns into a metaphor of human loss and survival. In the Marlborough show are four bronzes, each 10 ft. to 12 ft. high, called Hand-Like Trees, whose vertical trunks do resemble arms: their looming profiles recall Rodin's standing Balzac, and their vigorous modeling around...
...EDEN JACOBOWITZ...
...midnight four months ago, Eden Jacobowitz, a first-year, was attempting to study in his dorm when he was interrupted by a group of Black sorority members screaming and stomping their way through an initiation ceremony outside his room...
That is bad news for producers of the nation's 700 brands of bottled water, many of which convey the impression in their advertising that they have tapped an unspoiled river running through the Garden of Eden. Regulators and consumer groups are starting to question whether bottled waters are worth the $2.7 billion a year that customers spend on them. While no other officials have gone as far as North Carolina's, 23 states have passed laws regulating the industry's water-quality and -labeling standards. Several, like Georgia, require companies to provide documented proof of their sources for water...