Word: lap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gold Coast, students lived in the lap of luxury surrounded by all that money could buy. Local realtors jumped at the chance to rent exclusive apartment houses on Mt. Auburn Street catered to the needs of the extremely wealthy. Claverly Hall, Apley Court and Randolph Hall and Westmorely Court (today, part of Adams House) housed the College's rich kids. These students were the members of the social clubs, the clientele of the mirrored bars and marbled restaurants of downtown Boston and the owners the flashy Mercedes and Renaults parked along Mt. Auburn...
...host receptions this afternoon. There will be panel discussions about career options and thesis writing. In short, this weekend, Harvard will miraculously transform itself into an academic Shangri-La. All of its vast resources will be laid at your feet, and the administration would like your parents to lap it all up so that they go home satisfied, and cheerfully scrawl out another tuition check...
When I got my svelte, 4-lb. IBM Thinkpad last year, it made my old Mac PowerBook look obese. At 7 lbs., the Mac was a laptop in the same way that a bull mastiff is a lapdog. You need a pretty big lap. But my ThinkPad was so small and powerful, I figured I'd take it everywhere. On the train, Mr. Productivity would write his columns, answer his e-mail and even "test" a game...
...throw into my briefcase and haul back and forth daily. I found it irritating to sit through the tedious Windows start-up process when my supposedly intelligent machine s-l-o-o-o-w-l-y discovered that it was no longer on a network; it was on my lap. And the two-hour battery just wasn't enough to sustain my two-way commute...
...time, Cassatt's children actually look like children. Unlike previous painters, she does not paint children with adult facial expressions and proportion. Perhaps best among these paintings is the well-known "The Child's Bath" of 1893, which displays a nurse or mother tenderly holding a child on her lap as she begins to wash the little girl's feet. The girl calmly balances herself on the woman's knee and seems about to bite her lip as she watches the woman gently washing her foot. This oil painting, like Cassatt's prints, shows evidence of the Japanese influence...