Word: lofting
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...scented with burning wood and plump pork chops, sizzling in the old-fashioned black oven. The small wooden farm house had neither electricity nor running water. One room served as the living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry. A ladder in the corner led to the unfinished loft where Harriet and the man she now lives with, an East Coast social worker turned hog farmer, sleep. Their three children have their own miniature house some 30 feet away. After dinner, we talked for several hours, attempting to sort out the four jumbled years since we had last met. Then...
When I was a kid, one of my biggest thrills--ranking close to when I first "made out" in a choir loft in sixth grade--was the first time I got my name in the Los Angeles Times sports page. Me on the same page as Jerry West. Heaven. It was a box score for a 7th grade basketball tournament typed in the microscopic print developed especially for insurance policies. But who cared; I was young and had sharp eyes and anyway there it was, "Baggott...
...businessman who took part in this odd dialogue is about to become a star He was working out the script, costuming and lighting of his own personal sex fantasy, which he will act out with the Project, a theater group that has been performing in a creaking loft in lower Manhattan. During both their regular shows and the weekly audience-participation night, the Project's five actors and actresses concentrate with missionary zeal on their goal: to purge the demons of the audience's sexual fantasies...
...Church brings us a must for anyone who takes his film expertise seriously--a collection of early Lumiere brother shorts shot between 1895 and 1900 in Europe. Brought together under the title The Lumiere Years, these shorts apparently turned up after seventy years sitting in a trunk in the loft of an abandoned garage in Southern France. The shots of the Paris Exposition, the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and a film of President McKinley preparing to invade Cuba constitute some of America's earliest documentary by two of movies' first greats...
...when it comes right down to it, we have no choice: we must beg, cajole, tempt, propitiate, and otherwise urge out professors to pause for a moment, to descend from the high loft of prestige, and to show a little understanding. As my roommate gently put it, "I think the faculty forgets that the college exists solely for us." I don't want the students to become as selfish as the faculty appears to be; that would accomplish nothing. Only compromise can resolve the calendar and Reading Period dilemma, but when one side refuses to moderate its views or simply...