Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Klein collapses his lanky, 19-year-old frame into a cushionless sofa bed just to the left of the sign. He's sporting a beard eerily similar to Abraham Lincoln's, with his ears covered by a black knit headband...
...kind of close-knit department where the faculty really cares about you, and they check up on you," says Ryono...
Each face carries a grudge. The men mutter and growl and get fall-down drunk. The women wheedle and whine. Or they knit furiously, like Lindsay Duncan in Grown-Ups, as if rehearsing to put her unloving husband's eyes out. Or they throw insults like darts. "Drop dead!" shouts the pretentious Beverly (Steadman) at her husband in Abigail's Party (1977); two minutes later, he does. The hate-filled wife in Home Sweet Home is an adulterer, but infidelity with her husband's best friend gives the woman no more pleasure than anything else in her sorry life. There...
...also leaped to their death from the cliffs by the Pacific. So the second double suicide ignited fear of a chain reaction. (In fact, a few days later a 45-year-old woman jumped from the same spot but survived.) And among school administrators and families in this close-knit community, Amber's and Alicia's deaths also served as a reminder of how astonishingly fraught with danger the teenage years have become in America...
Rudenstine always articulates his vision of a more closely-knit university with words like "coordination" and "cooperation" but never "centralization"--a word that many here fear. Even though the schools are now encouraged to work together, the idea of a strong central authority is still taboo...