Word: grid
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...Dream in which the audience was seated on 500 individually hung swings, and the hemp that was used to hang the swings became the farce of Shakespeare’s play, and that was on night one; and all those swings were bussed up to the grid. The next night, there was a very realistic play, it took place in an operating room; the following day, it was used by a modern dance company...
...their personal motivations have won them all a full day hunched over an answer grid with a number 2 pencil and a chance at their common dream to become doctors...
...building is a cubic volume from which the curved studios spaces are hung on a diagonal axis. There is extensive cantilevering and a reliance on reinforced concrete to create large areas of open space. Unlike traditional structures, which rely on load-bearing walls, the Carpenter Center relies on a grid of load-bearing columns. As a result, each of the five levels of the building is designed to be configurable through movable partitions that extend well short of the expansive ceiling...
...game of chess dominates the show’s set, whose back wall is covered with a game board-like metal grid. The set, as Downer describes it, is “removed from reality,” and underlines Florence’s realization that “what she’s doing is basically fake.” Florence leaves Freddie Trumper for his Russian counterpart, played by Benjamin D. Margo ’04-05, who is also a Crimson editor...
...radar screen was rapidly turning epidemic, particularly among gay men and drug addicts. Yet no one agreed on what to call it. Because the disease critically weakened the immune system and was often accompanied by a rare cancer, it had been labeled gay-related immune deficiency, or GRID, by some people, gay cancer by others. It wasn't, however, restricted to gays. At the meeting, a less exclusive name was suggested: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The acronym had staying power--as has the epidemic. More than 22 million people worldwide have died of AIDS over the past two decades...