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Word: meres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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That may be so, but for those who are in touch, the Dudley Co-op is the place to be. For a mere $5,200 a year, room, board and a built-in community are for the taking. Extra benefits for members include Friday Happy Hours, the yearly lingerie study session in Lamont, and even their own "COOP." A film-making student a few years ago built an elaborate backyard henhouse for a movie he was making, but fellow co-op residents, concerned about the animals, allowed them all to escape. The chickens and VES concentrator may be gone...

Author: By Meredith L. Petrin, | Title: alternative lifestyle | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...well on the eerie three-dimensional quality of the image's photographic negative, is that it is not, as Bishop d'Arcis contended, a cunning painting. "To try to interpret it as the product of some unknown medieval faker seems rather like arguing for the Taj Mahal being a mere geological accident," he has written. It "must have come into contact with a real body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science And The Shroud | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...comparison to the living scene before my eyes: a silken shimmer of pastel clouds clinging in tendrils to the tops of mountains, an endless dance of wind and fog that alternately revealed and concealed subtle changes in the dark hills beneath. How futile it must feel for a mere mortal to try to capture that, I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Poet's Place | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...mere passing glance at Alloro's interior betrays the change of ownership. The hungry sidewalk-stroller is beckoned by windows elegantly warmed by white Christmas lights. However, the transformed decor does not quite live up to the promise of the window. The previously honey-colored, textured walls have been repainted white and covered with Victorian porcelain plates. Though certainly spare, the restaurant is white-on-white without the grace of abstraction. Instead, the sprinkling of tchotchkes verges on precious. Sevres porcelain knick-knacks accessorize the shelves with prim blue and white patterned sparkle, miniature paintings of cherubs in pastel colors...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: hoppin | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

Today is Wednesday. I am halfway there. In a mere two days I will pull the shade down, turn the alarm off, and enter a state of consciousness hibernating bears would envy. I can almost feel my soft pillow...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: Sleepless in Holworthy | 4/15/1998 | See Source »

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