Word: functionally
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Because we have tethered a dry erase marker to our bathroom mirror, it has come to function as a de facto white board. The notes we leave to each other—about an impending housing lottery, say, or about the necessity of replacing the hand soap—invariably begin with the same salutation: “Girls...
...designed by Melissa E. Goldman, is quite incomprehensible as well: a number of green poles topped with hexagonal lights cover the stage. It is unclear what these are supposed to represent (trees? stars? streetlights? fairy stop signs?); their chief function seems to be to clutter the stage. The branchlike or possibly rootlike structure at the rear right of the stage, as well as the green chicken-wire arranged around the exits, are equally puzzling. They do contribute a sense of the outdoors and pastoral life that would be associated with the shepherd Strephon, but since they are constantly on stage...
...Sandvoss’s hands, the character’s lack of eloquence, part deliberate and part a function of the script’s weak points, becomes transformed into stumbling sweetness. And despite choppy pacing, awkwardly campy dialogue and a soundtrack that imposes emotional cues with all the subtlety of a tank, there’s plainly something there: genuine chemistry between Sandvoss and Ramsey, some sense that when they finally crumple in each other’s arms, it’s all for something much better than Hollywood-style inevitability...
...Task Force interim report recommended that services at the BSC and UHS be organized as a unified spectrum, rather than two isolated, possibly intersecting, clusters. It suggested placing them under a single administrator as a way to partially achieve this—though the BSC will continue to function as a separate entity...
Tune in while you work out. That's the recommendation of researchers who studied the combined effect of music and exercise for cardiac rehab patients. All reported feeling better after exercise, but those who worked out while listening to Vivaldi scored higher in a test of cognitive function...