Word: gately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council plans to hold a "Yale-Gate party" consisting of a barbecue and a rock concert the morning of the football game in New Haven...
...help of books like a the World Almanac or an atlas -- competitors may be shown an image of Socrates and have to know when he lived in order to move to the next clue. Carmen's trail may lead a player from Kigali to Istanbul, from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Cowboy Hall of Fame, or from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to Mayan ruins. Some of the questions are far from easy: players may have to know the currency of a distant country, identify a South Pacific island tribe, or describe the significance of historical figures such...
Educators around the country positively gush about the series. "I'm teaching a lot more geography and problem solving," says Jon Bennett, a fourth-grade teacher in Blusston, Ind., who uses the Carmen computer games in his class. "Kids have a reason for finding out where the Golden Gate Bridge is. They love Carmen, and they don't realize they're learning." But maybe, just maybe, they...
...today, most students ignore issues beyond Johnston Gate. This year, while reports emerged questioning the quality of the city's water, while negotiations continued on the University's impact on and responsibility to the city and while state officials threatened to put a 16-lane, 11-story highway interchange in East Cambridge, most Harvard students went about their routine without noticing...
Quite enough. The Real Live Brady Bunch opened at Chicago's Annoyance Theater in June 1990 and ran for 14 months to packed houses. This fall it moved to New York City, where it is drawing enthusiastic crowds at that haven of hip, the Village Gate. The audience roars in recognition, laughs at all the dumb lines and sometimes shouts them out before the actors. "We hated the show then and we hate it now," said one recent visitor, "but it's very funny...