Word: messes
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...first impression of Harvard upon registration in Mem Hall was 'what a mob scene--just like the Army:' hundreds of veterans mostly still in army suntans and the place filled with registration tables like an army mess hall," wrote David L. McMurtrie '50 in a letter describing the crowds...
...stones he left to surrogates, like League of Conservation Voters president Deb Callahan, who bashed Bush as being "more James Watt than Teddy Roosevelt" while Gore stood on the stage in silence (he did look a little uncomfortable). Other surrogates were unapologetic. "If the League... wants to contrast the mess in Texas with Al Gore's pro-family, pro-environment record, that's their decision," shrugged Gore spokesman Chris Lehane...
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Harry Gugger and Christine Binswanger, who share credit for the redesign, were smart enough not to mess too much with the building. "Sir Giles Scott created a monument," says Gugger. "We wanted to blur the boundaries of the monument, to turn it into open space." Blur is the right word. It's the gentle transformation of a giant. The most astonishing thing about it may be that a looming, great, scary industrial complex could become something so polite...
...Diaper a baby. (A real mess, please...
...this 2hr.18min. musical tragedy a post-modern masterpiece or a post-musical mess? The opinion of Besson and the Cannes jury was clear enough. So was that of the unimpressed, who found the film's story dramatically and socially inane, its songs lacking in melody or variety, its jittery camerawork in need of a megadose of Ritalin...