Word: labyrinth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most computer programs I know to ensure that the needs and interests of Eliot residents are met most equitably in their rooming assignments. Edie spends her summer doing what a computer program attempts to do in a few minutes--match diverse groups of men and women to a complex labyrinth of rooms and potential suites--only Edie does a much better job. She, I am sure, would probably much prefer to spend the summer lounging in Eliot courtyard, but she sees the rooming assignments as something worth doing. And so do most Eliot House residents...
Below, pandemonium was erupting. Heavy smoke cascaded down into the labyrinth of tunnels, some as far as 200 ft. below street level, quickly overwhelming people. "There was thick, black, choking smoke everywhere," said Railway Guard Doug Patterson. "It was impossible to see anything." Passengers aboard trains still pulling into the station pressed their faces to the windows and squinted against the smoke, spectators to a nightmare. Recalled Leroy Bigby, 23: "I could hear people screaming and running in every direction...
Boston's Blackstone Block is just such a marvelous chunk of city. Wedged between restored Faneuil Hall Marketplace and city hall, Blackstone Block is a seemingly haphazard labyrinth of buildings from several centuries strung along narrow, zigzagging streets. This jam-packed patchwork is, in extremely concentrated form, the natural look of cities, of anything created over time by many hands. Certain tacit rules apparently governed the 250-year accretion of buildings in Blackstone Block -- rules about material (red brick) and height (seven stories maximum) -- but within those constraints houses and workshops were demolished and built as circumstances demanded over...
Author Chapman Pincher charges in a new book, Traitors: The Labyrinth of Treason, that Oldfield was a homosexual. Last week Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirmed that the spy chief had admitted to her before his death in 1981 "that he had from time to time engaged in homosexual activities." Thatcher stressed that "there was no reason whatsoever to suggest that security had ever been compromised...
...entered Borges' Labyrinth, turning pages like so many processed bits of the shin bone of the late, great Jimmy Hoffa, then I came to the end of a chapter...