Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University officials don't know the combination of the lock and don't want to damage the safe, but would like to know what's been inside it since the 1920s or 1930s. Three weeks ago, university President Steven Muller offered $100 to any undergraduate who could open...
...there, and if so did I know someone named Sharon. Confused, I answered yes, whereupon the police asked me to come downstairs. After a jumbled series of conversations, I learned that Sharon had set off the alarm by running into my basement, which I had forgotten to lock, when she was parking her van in front of my house and a man approached...
...that may be destined to become the most famous late Picasso (his supposed last self-portrait, green and mauve, stubble on the withered, tight ape flesh) is merely banal in its theatricality. But when, as in The Artist and His Model, 1964, the grinding contradictions of his formal system lock at last, when the haste and incompletion of the surface are overcome by the tensions of their massive underpinning, late Picasso has great visceral power-if not, necessarily, the magical efficacy he sought. Even in travesty, he knew the tragic; and though these late paintings are not the best...
...vote on divestiture, 5-6-1 against it. The Harvard divestiture movement has inspired successful and profitable divestments by Cambridge and Massachusetts pension funds, and by universities like Michigan State, which reported that through divestment it made over $2 million. Finally, each time the divestiture movement and the Corporation lock horns, the world listens, and white South Africa listens...
...David finally emerged from his sterile world, crawling through an air lock into his mother's waiting arms. But that brief reunion was clouded by worry: a persistent fever, diarrhea and vomiting had made it necessary for doctors to treat him outside the bubble. The symptoms, doctors feared, were signs of the often fatal graft vs. host disease, which occurs when cells from donated marrow attack the recipient's body. During the next 15 days, David developed severe ulceration of his digestive tract and a dangerous accumulation of fluid in his lungs and around his heart. The exhausted...