Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes after the debate was over, journalists were already "spinning" the debate in light of Gore's recent slide in the polls. Immediately, whatever the American public thought about the debate became entangled with the media's collective musings about the outcome...
...Mather's dining hall is remarkable for the way in which it defrosts the cold impersonality of Mather the Gallery. Walking into the dining hall proper is like walking into a ski lodge, the warm room beckoning after a day out on the slopes. Sunlight-like light radiates from sunburst-shaped light fixtures. The vastness of empty walls is interrupted by stretches of brick (a comfy building material) and pictures of random groups of house residents (found on walls throughout Mather). These contribute to the friendly atmosphere of the house while covering its empty canvas...
...oasis" from the rest of the dining area--unifying the separating elements of the space. (This is opposed to Quincy, where the separating elements are unified by a similar "ribbed" design but where the salad bar juts obtrusively into the dining space.) The entire room is flooded with light from a skylight that does wonderfully incorporate the natural world into this unnatural place, and a few scattered pictures of other parts of Harvard on the walls do also remind diners of the world outside this far-flung commensal oasis...
...particular, Lewis advised attending this afternoon's discussion by Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez, entitled "Joining the Fellowship of Educated Men and Women." He also recommended tomorrow's speech by Professor of Education Richard J. Light on "Making the Most of First-Year Choices...
...bosoms," the seven deadly sins, and the "explosive creativity" of the American adolescent. (His plan for exterminating Saddam Hussein is to "drop 1,000 American Adolescents with boom boxes in Baghdad or Teheran.") And he talks about how taking attendance at McKee Vocational and Technical High School sounded like "light opera: Adinolfi, Buscaglia, Cacciamani, DiFazio, Esposito, Gagliardi, Miceli...