Word: inhabited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yale has been struggling to overcome financial instability and labor strife. Last spring, undergraduates were forced to fend for themselves when the dining services went on strike. Earlier that term, Elis were locked out of their classrooms when teaching fellows battled the administration. At Princeton, sophomores were forced to inhabit trailers as a poor excuse for overflow housing. Whatever our problems at Harvard, we've never lacked teachers, food or permanent housing. These issues aside, the survey would likely have gone differently if U.S. News had been able to quantify one crucial fact: Yale is in New Haven. (Sept...
...tastes sweeter than a boysenberry. They'll also find ice caves where they can retreat from the sun--unless there's a July snowfall that day (it's happened). Canoeing on the Rangeley Lakes affords stunning views and a chance to glimpse the moose, ospreys and bald eagles that inhabit the shores...
...gentleman caller) to give way to Laura and Jim, who come to the forefront in the second (The Gentleman calls). For awhile, Amanda Wingfield really seems to take over as the central figure--the former Southern belle whose husband went AWOL long ago, and who is forced to inhabit a world of straightened means and two children as entrapped as herself. She confronts these facts with a mixture of illusions and hard-headed realism, indulging liberally in memories of the past but desperately aware of the present and obsessively crafting would-be practical "plans and provisions" for the future...
...criticism of Alon Hilu's play could have been applied to almost any play by Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionescu or other Absurd playwrights. "The same joke is repeated relentlessly," writes Muchmore. "It then turns out that the whole conflict has also ocurred mulitple times...[the characters in the play] inhabit their own world, one that lacks meaningful contact with the real world...it walks a thin line between reality and oddball fantasy...[and] asks a few more questions than it ends up answering...The characters succesfully end up seeming crazy without being enlightening...[and the play] never gives us sufficient...
Beep and Kitty are deeply nuts. They inhabit their own world, one that lacks meaningful contact with the real world. This realization is meant to be a true revelation, but by the time it's actually addressed in dialogue, most viewers have already decided this on their...