Word: fense
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Getting out of Harvard will drain the stress out of anyone. Day and night jaunts to Olmstead's stunning Arnold Arboretum, 265 acres of landscaped beauty with a sweeping view of Boston; a hike through the nine parks of the renowned Emerald Necklace; and a "Waterways Boston Tour" through Jamaica...
We like to think that we are the residing beneficiaries of humankind's slow, lurching ascent from the fens of superstition toward the cool empyrean of reason. Isaac Newton said he stood on the shoulders of giants, the thinkers who preceded him, and we stand on Newton's, plus his...
I spent my first fall here in utter amazement at the colors of the trees. In the Evergreen State, trees change color only in picture books. Last weekend I walked around the Fens with a friend from Seattle, watching the ducks swim through the leaves that had fallen on the...
Much the same thing happens with D-FENS, whose portrayal by Douglas is more finely tuned than Ebbe Roe Smith's script. When we meet him he is a sort of Everygeek -- flattop haircut, half horn-rims, a pocket protector fully armed with ball-points. You expect his anger to...
For, let's face it, there is an element of truth in the character of D-FENS. But it is, finally, tabloid truth. His motives and psychology are not, to say the least, subtly set forth. The menaces lurking in the city he traverses are exaggerated. And the people who...