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...this "Wyld Hunt" is a sprinting first-year with antlers strapped to her head. The "spectral hounds" following her are mostly hard science concentrators, all with an inhumanly high tolerance for silliness. They "slay" her on the steps of Memorial Church and carry her back to Quincy House inert...
There is a theory abroad that Lewinsky has weakened Clinton's diplomacy. Impossible. In a foreign policy so inert, any weakening would be imperceptible...
...pulled away--red taffeta, sewn by Princess Clotilde of Savoy in 1868--the fragile, scarred length of ancient linen will be smoothed into place in a metal-and-glass display case built precisely to its dimensions. The case's air will be drawn out and replaced with argon, an inert gas. Then the case will be hung horizontally at the intersection of the Turin Cathedral's nave and transept, near the center of the cathedral's built-in cross. And thus six days after Easter, spectators will be allowed to view an image that has grown fainter with each unveiling...
...certainly think that [more opposition] would be beneficial to the campus," he says. "But the nature of non-progressives on this campus is a tendency to be inert...
...lobby, a group of bricks on the floor shoot up tall waving poles crowned by ruby-red wax lips. Like Mergel's sculptures, "Bricks, Stalks, Lips" by Daniel O. Williams '98 toys with the distinction between the figurative and the abstract. Though economically constructed of the most mundane and inert parts, William's forest of rods refuse to be discussed in anything but the most animated and creaturely terms. Are they simply chatty bricks which grew tall necks for clandestine conversation above our heads? Or perhaps these poles sway precariously like some convention of bizarre supermodels--a mirage of impossibly...