Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this: urban planning can only do so much to make a community look and feel like one community. The rouge monotony that serves as Cambridge's controlling architectural authority is able to mask only the surface of life. The intended effect of brick omnipresence is coherence, or the idea that even institutions at cross-purposes with each other can meld into a seamless grouping. Coherence perpetuates the deception that we are all bound up in the same life as one another, and that this "fact" is necessary and good. Coherence says that things are purposeful, that they have a creator...
...longer a college in any real sense. While the bill was based in valuable affection for Radcliffe's history and integral continued support of women's issues at Harvard, it ignored the fact that women are only channeled through Radcliffe because they are female. The bill supported the idea of "separate but equal"--something we can no longer tolerate at this University...
...connoisseurs of the pinot noir vintage. Of the remaining 800 sites, maybe one fourth were French web sites simply using the word in its native context--for example "le rinoceros noir," an informative page dedicated to the black rhino. That leaves approximately 600 sites related to the conventional idea of noir, and of those sites, the majority were fairly ordinary, academically or intellectually-oriented pages, shrines to Bogart or Blade Runner, homages to Elmore Leonard or James Ellroy, comparisons of L.A. Confidential and Sunset Boulevard. Among this type of site there were only a few notable quirks. The "Noir City...
...with two people and a banjo is a question for the ages. Another site features musical acts from the Vancouver area; this month keep an ear out for COAL, which claims to be the only "ethereal psychedelic western noir lounge act" around, perhaps because no other bands have any idea what the hell that means. And for the gritty, hard-core beach-boy in all of us, there's the Del-fi Records web page, home of original "spy-and-surf noir" bands like the El Camino's and The Deuce Coupes, and the only label with "slurpy, reverb-drenched...
...credo celebrates the "Blanc et Noir" of the penguin; for the Penmaster, the coloring of this seabird potently symbolizes the noir struggle between good and evil. However, as interesting a symbolic figure as the penguin is, the Penmaster pushes the idea quite a bit further than a simple intellectual statement. He presents an annotated list of the "most evil penguins" on the planet; a "Penguin Update" for up-to-the- minute information on the penguin revolution; and a link to a "corporation" called "Penco," which offers "the best in penguin care products and penguin accessories." This company even...