Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full-scale images in her surreal world aren't genteel keepsakes or familiar racial epithets. Walker's anti-stereotypes wouldn't make good logos on syrup bottles or tidy punch-lines to racist jokes. Rather, the very icons designed to suppress and stigmatize blacks return magnified and grotesque to haunt our collective conscience. Most shocking of all, the pickaninnies have appropriated the garb of paper silhouettes, the charming craft of their mistress' reaction...
...Martin's cart and Sales's lay-up, showing just how monolithic the sense of compassion has become in our society. This is not to slight Martin or Sales; by all accounts, both are tremendous individuals and devoted athletes. But both fell victim to unfortunate circumstances that have always haunted and always haunt athletes...
...haunt of Romance Studies concentrators and classics buffs. Since its founding in 1856, Schoenhof's Foreign Books has attracted scores of foreign nationals, academics and multilingual Cantabrigians...
...There's one loose end, however, that could come back to haunt him. This "special group," it says, will also operate under "specific detailed procedures which will be developed given the special nature of the presidential sites." Wording so loose, it almost cries out for Saddam to defy the spirit of the deal -- by drawing up a whole new list of inspection-blocking "special procedures...
Once the financial disaster of Loker was apparent (and only then), administrators realized something had gone wrong. Relegating student input to a token role in the planning process--a few seats on a committee--came back to haunt them. But even financial losses didn't make them heed the voices of dissatisfied undergraduates. Administrators continued to resist dramatic changes in lighting and furnishings. Their half-hearted response--a few couches and a pool table--could not overcome the utter lack of regard for undergraduate life apparent in the design...