Word: makeshifts
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...televisions or couches (those were added in 1997). Even the decor of the basement seems to have been designed as an artistic-cultural statement with students as an afterthought. The pixilated light-emitting diode display was as much an affront to students in 1996 as it is today. The makeshift, eclectic Loker of today, with its noisy jukebox, open iMac work stations and haphazardly placed televisions, is amazingly still utilized as a study and meeting space—not because it serves these purposes well—but, rather, simply because there is no adequate alternative space...
...point guard play for us was makeshift throughout last season,” Sullivan says. “That clearly is the position that we need to clean up dramatically. We can’t play another season with the assist-turnover ratio that existed among all three perimeter positions, but more significantly at the point guard position...
...Point guard play for us last year was makeshift throughout the whole season,” Sullivan says. “That clearly is the position that we have to clean up dramatically...
When the parade passed the intersection of Tremont and Bosworth streets, church bells rang while office workers and guests at the Nine Zero hotel rained down makeshift confetti...
Choi recalls how the band adapted to the absence of microphone stands: By taping their makeshift microphone to a Harvard-issued floor lamp. The band members had cheap instruments and small practice amps, and Choi says the first time she actually held a real microphone with the group was at their first show, a performance in the Quincy Cage that was, in Hufstedler’s words, “a total bomb.” The show was plagued by broken strings and other assorted equipment problems. At the time Porter had been playing guitar for less than...