Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT WE SAW did not cheer us. There was a line of black & white clad Harvardians reaching from Johnston Gate to Somerville. A rumour was sweeping through the line that to be admitted you had to be able explain Harvard's tenure system. Of course, this was a lie. You only had to know the Ten Core Requirements...
...time we reached the gate, the single ticket-taker was too hoarse to ask us any questions, so I gave him the tickets and got my hand stamped. After showing my i.d. my hand was stamped for drinks. They were offering souvenir stamps in the corner, so I got two of those. And then there were these cute little animal stamps...by the time my date dragged me away, my right hand looked like an airmail package from Karachi...
After less than an hour to pack, Daniloff, dressed in the same clothes he had been wearing when he was arrested, was driven to the airport. There he encountered several reporters standing at the departure gate. "I'm leaving more in sorrow than anger," said Daniloff, who proceeded to recite a more angry than sorrowful poem by the 19th century Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov about the "land of masters, land of knaves" (see ESSAY...
...York and Washington, which combines the convenience and discomfort of a subway, the "cattle car." Anybody who is anybody in New York and Washington takes it at least twice a week. Senators, football players, lobbyists, lawyers and bankers scuttle between their spheres of influence, elbowing one another at the gate for favored seats. In Nora Ephron's Heartburn, the shuttle serves as a leitmotiv of power. Complaining about the shuttle is the next best thing to flying it. "New York begins the moment you board the shuttle," sniffs Washington Lawyer Travis Brown. "It's dirty, noisy, rude and expensive...
...California fadlands. Today urban parks and streets all across the nation spin with the kids' aggressive energy and hair-raising choreography. They have their own argot: "rad" means good; a "squid" or "nipple head" is an awkward rider; "to Wilson" is to fall. In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, somebody brings the music -- Phil Collins, Run-D.M.C. -- and somebody else a ramp for the daredevils to soar above, and the showboating begins. Says Dave Vanderspek, 22, the leader of the Curb Dogs Club: "Instead of getting attention by breaking windows, now I have people screaming for me when...