Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concedes that her artistic vision is "distinctly Asian" in its stark simplicity and virtual requirement to "look inward." If it, and her almost single-minded devotion to work, can be traced to anything, it is to the close- knit, ascetic world of her family. Her parents fled China just before the Communist takeover in 1949 and eventually settled in Athens, Ohio, where her father, a ceramicist, taught for many years at Ohio University, and where her mother, a poet, still does. Her older brother, Tan, is also a poet. Lin's family in China, which included an architect...
...evidence, some point to Yale, where the housing system is completely random and the residential colleges allegedly no longer play an important role in student life. Instead, the housing situation at Yale has led to tightly-knit rooming groups and a lack of esprit de corps within each residential college as a whole, Heimert says...
...call the science community protective is an understatement. It is a tightly-knit enclave that relies heavily on trust: trust that a peer-reviewer will not swipe your idea, trust that a lab is keeping accurate information, trust that the end goal of science is knowledge, not an NIH grant or university tenure...
...Boardwalk crowd offers an unself-conscious mixture: round middles barely disguised by oversize T shirts or bulging above cinched-in belts; conical straw hats; white socks in white sandals; baseball caps on balding heads; male decolletage; painted eyebrows; sequins in the daytime; polyester stretch pants; factory-knit acrylic cardigans; lots of polka dots; colors usually found only at the extremities of a kid's Crayola...
...fans overseas do not share these views, and anyway, she refuses to pander when voters challenge her judgment. She is, by temperament, uncomfortable with easy promises or hand-knit populism. Instead her rhetoric rings with noblesse oblige. "If you are born strong, with parents who give you the best, you have an even stronger responsibility for the people who didn't get the same start...