Word: intrepid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...primed for a critique of capitalism, or for a semiotical analysis of post-war America. Yet the play's treatment of kitsch goes no farther than to make the point that '50s consumer products would look pretty weird to Victorian dames. For example, during their voyage through time the intrepid adventurers keep coming across egg-beaters. "Totem!" "Talisman!" "Taboo!" they conjecture, and develop the practice of spinning the beaters at one another. They seem to be voiding the egg-beaters of signifying power and revealing them as empty signs, which makes no sense. Yet the two-hour kitsch fest invites...
...Harass those intrepid Crimson Key Society members. They represent a valuable resource and you don't even have to tip them. So we recommend following them through the Yard on tours, while asking vital questions. In which libraries do most Harvard students have sex? How often? How big is your key, anyway...
Collectively, Harvard's intrepid administrators earned more than $14 million this summer--for tasks such as interior decorating and buying coffee...
Ever wonder how commercial airlines keep the air in the passenger cabin fresh and circulating? They wouldn't just recycle the air, would they? Well, it looks like a lot of them do. An intrepid study in the August issue of Consumer Reports -- 40 volunteers used hand-held instruments to measure air quality on 158 flights by 20 airlines -- found that almost a quarter of commercial flights don't meet a basic standard for air freshness. The problem, airline employee unions and researchers say, is that newer-model planes recycle as much as half of their ventilation air, instead...
Dimbleby captured Charles talking to residents of a decrepit public-housing project in Birmingham and mixing with unemployed young people attending a training program in Norfolk funded by one of his charitable trusts. He was also shown as an intrepid foreign traveler. On camera he projected an awkward charm, both endearing and genuine. In a Bedouin tent on the edge of the Arabian desert, he sipped camel's milk from a plastic cup. In Mexico he picked at a gooey plate of lamb. "I always dread having something like that," he said, "in case it is laced with chilies, which...