Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, the carpet had been light and buoyant, as if in entirely different colors. Out in the Grand Foyer, a regilded ceiling now gleams above; plummy new fabrics provide a frame for the gold-backed mirrors along the walls; and over the great staircase Ezra Winter's gigantic The Fountain of Youth has been restored to such dazzling color that for a moment one can almost forget what a truly dreadful painting it is--"a wormy intestine floating in a muddy cloud," a contemporary critic described...
...highest office. He has not only made better movies than Ronald Reagan, but his legendary years of womanizing make Clinton look like a Mormon missionary and J.F.K. like a rural parish priest. A Beatty campaign, it seems fair to speculate, would have no jarring bimbo eruptions, only a flowing fountain of sexy memories...
...cool off close to home, the fountain in front of the Science center is perfect. Prance on top of the fountain's rocks, but, be warned, the misty appearance is deceptive--if you plan to go in with you clothes on, remember that the fountain is significantly wetter than it looks...
Though it removed its trademark soda fountain in 1947 when such fountains were going out of vogue, it reinstalled the fountain four years ago and found success...
...lamented the plight of "unfortunate males" with their "delusions of adequacy," and chided The Crimson--"that fountain of infallibility, source of effable and ineffable truth [and] arguably the best campus daily"--for calling the prospect of co-education "ridiculous" in an editorial published earlier this century. He even touched on the "universal urge to merge," which drove fear into the hearts of Harvard's male administrators...