Word: interruptus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...building and a giant, empty gallery space meant to be filled with art from the University's museums--a perfectly rendered balance between private comfort and public display. For financial reasons, the Unversity's art was never showcased, turning much of the House into an impersonal blank canvas (artes interruptus). Nowhere did this seem more of a problem than the dining hall, which was to encapsulate the gallery feel of the House while functioning as the focal point of student life (Carlhian gave it what he considered to be the best view of the River anywhere in the House...
...AVENGERS Remake of hip '60s series sinks. Middle-aged men with Mrs. Peel fixations suffer fantasy interruptus...
...oral intimacy? Not surprisingly, nothing. Nothing specific. But if one reads between the lines, the news is not good for the President. It's terrible. In Genesis 38: 8-10, God commands a man named Onan to marry his brother's widow. Reluctant to impregnate her, Onan commits coitus interruptus, spilling his seed on the ground. How does God deal with Onan's seminal wastefulness? "And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also...
...they certainly don't, as every rabid Rotisserie rooter, desperately craving his breakfast box-score fix, can attest. What makes the present condition of baseballus interruptus so galling is that the major leagues as a whole (unlike several individual teams) are prospering. Before the strike, attendance was running a little ahead of the record 70 million who went to games in 1993. Following the opening of Baltimore's fabled Camden Yards in 1992, new baseball-only parks -- combining classic ballyard architecture with modern amenities -- have brought sellout crowds to the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers...
...static rendering of Dorothy Parker's Dusk Before Fireworks (directed by Ken Russell, adapted by Valerie Curtin). In the giddy days of bathtub gin -- much guzzling in all three stories, by the way -- the coitus of an aging rake (Peter Weller) and a nubile flapper is rendered interruptus by untimely calls from his other women. Former teen queen Molly Ringwald delivers her lioness's share of the Parker sallies with engaging zest but seems a bit too twentysomethingly modern for a tart of the Roaring Twenties...