Word: marooning
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Three hundred maroon tee shirts will be decorated with a small football silk-screened on the front, with text announcing the game. On the back: "Yale's new URL: www.safetyschool.org...
...army is right to cite unity and strength as objectives, but wrong to assume that berets will help at all in achieving them. In fact, Green Beret Special Forces, Army Rangers (black berets) and airborne units (maroon berets) are already voicing heated objections to the new uniform accessory, claiming that their distinction has been removed. This division among the soldiers can only weaken our defenses...
Wearing their traditional maroon fez hats, the group rode camels, go-carts and mini cars from Copley Square to City Hall, drawing an estimated 300,000 people to the four-hour spectacle...
...cultural phenomena we might have borrowed from Europe--legal red-light districts, the siesta, pretty money--we get this. Sixteen men and women maroon themselves for as long as 39 days on an isolated tropical island, building driftwood huts and lunching on rats. Meanwhile, 10 folks agree to spend as long as three months sequestered, sleeping in communal bedrooms and living without TV or newspapers in a house that lacks only pencil shavings on the floor to qualify as a human hamster cage--all for cash prizes, under constant camera surveillance for a prime-time audience...
...best thing about both these works--and it sounds almost too good to be true--is that they feel like they're set simultaneously in the past and future. In "Stasi City" one of the twins floats in the air, but she's wearing a yellow and maroon striped sweatsuit with stirrups. She surrounds herself telekinetically with other floating objects, but has pulled from the repository an aluminum Thermos and decade-old office furniture...