Word: humid
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reading period draws to a close, the pressure begin to build in earnest. Slowly the cold but humid Harvard air becomes oppressive, thick and heavy. I become Ed Harris in The Abyss, breathing a slurry of oxygenated hydrocarbons. Each breath is positive work, my diaphragm labors draw the viscous fluid into my screaming lungs, then expels it out again through my narrow trachea. I am in a slow-motion free-fall through frigid, silent water, receding from the dim light of the sun as the deep rushes to swallow me. Every moment of descent adds thousands of pounds of water...
...clock on election night two weeks ago, and poll watchers in the small Georgia town of Dallas had a problem. The weather was humid and rainy. Now their vote-counting machine was rejecting thousands of punch-card ballots because the cardboard had warped in the damp night air. What to do? Break out the blow-dryers! "As weird as it sounds, it's standard procedure," says Fran Watson, election superintendent for Paulding County, where Dallas is located. "We blow a hair dryer over them, and then they'll go through...
...Miami version of the show, for instance, the curators set up games in each room and encouraged the viewers to play with them). Ultimately, these inconsistencies are dwarfed by the beauty and power of many of the show's offerings. Pieces like Anna Lupas's "Humid Installation," in which she organized an entire Romanian village to hang its laundry to dry on the same day, are beautiful in their eloquent and simple blending of traditional local culture with a contemporary aesthetic...
...year older, and a year wiser. And although Kevin Richardson will forever remain my Prince Charming, it was time for something new. So on a humid evening, I boarded what the South Station Amtrak employees had dubbed the "'NSync train" to Foxboro, Mass., and to my gratifying amusement, I saw many of you on board as well. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone...
...first day of school as something of a gift. Here I was, heading back to the trenches, with a new haircut (generally middling to bad), a faint tan (left over from summer camp) and a great pair of corduroys (it is just me, or was fall much less humid back in the ?70s?). I would head off to the bus stop with my neighbors, or start the one-mile trek to my high school with an unmistakable spring in my step. A clean slate! A brand new year, ripe with new opportunities to learn, new educational vistas to scale...