Word: grating
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However, for some of Cambridge's less fortunate residents, a minor architectural change has left them with no place to live. Up until several weeks ago, a number of homeless individuals used a heating grate next to the Harvard-owned Holyoke Center as a source of warmth at night. Some students were surprised to stroll down Holyoke Street recently and see a slanted, black metal cage covering the heating grates. The top of this cage forms a 35 degree angle with the ground, making it impossible for anyone to lie on the grates...
According to Macy DeLong, a spokesperson for Solutions for Work, a homelessness empowerment group, the difficulties started several years ago when "a very rowdy crowd [began to] use the grate inappropiately, driving away other homeless people and scaring passers-by." Hathaway H. Green, director of communications for Harvard Planning and Real Estate, elaborated on these disturbances, mentioning that "tenants and customers repeatedly expressed concern" over behavior such as "drinking and defacating...
...Greta Garbo vanishing act may be appropriate for Simpson at this point: "He needs to stick with his kids and stay out of the limelight. If he's seen taking his kids to Disneyland, or at a black-tie party or having fun somewhere, it's just going to grate on America...
...might also grate on his children, who Simpson claims are his first priority. "The more commotion and instability there is in a child's life, the more difficult it will be for them to adjust," says Steven Kanter, a Cleveland child psychologist. "There's also the added factor of the death of their mother. That scar will never completely heal." Still, Simpson might well learn something about equanimity from the way one of his children is dealing with her pain. Juditha Brown says that after she gave the kids over to Simpson, Sydney called on the phone to console...
...Thomas Vincent (Justin Levitt) invokes the power of God to soothe his troubled parishoners. As he begs for God's mercy, he becomes irate, realizes the pathetic and hopeless predicament of his state. He yells his sermons to little effect, except to grate on the audience's nerves...