Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheerful surroundings and youthful excitement, however, are a false window into the mood of most Muscovites. Apart from a few cosmetic changes, the city is literally a mess, giving citizens far more immediate problems to worry about than Kremlin intrigues and superpower summitry. Injuries from slips, falls and other pedestrian mishaps were reported to be running as high as 1,200 a day because the city can no longer afford enough tools and workers to clear the filthy, slush-filled streets. Mountains of sodden cardboard boxes are piling up behind new sheet-metal stands, where vendors sell cigarettes, candy...
...Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, the nuns do a rap number in addition to '60s Motown. These films are also "family" pictures, which means they bear a message -- though the message can be severe in the Home Alone '90s. Beethoven's 2nd teaches that if you mess with a pooch and his humans, you can get creamed by a house, dropped off a cliff or neutered. Ah, the new family values...
...with that interesting premise (or is it trivial? Trivial but interesting? Trivial and uninteresting? If the latter, stop reading here. I myself was a bit ambivalent about the whole mess, until I started...), a research team and I went out into the field to uncover a snapshot of Harvard Square's offerings this holiday season...
This, by the way, from the same University at which a House master two weeks ago asked his students not to defecate in public hallways and to clean up their mess if they did. Clearly, this is not a University that cares how dumb it looks. So what could motivate two College administrators to agree that an "Assassin" game sounded like good, clean fun, but balk a few days later...
Eighty years before America was to break with England, patriots, expatriates and repatriates found themselves on either side of the Atlantic; it was a complicated mess that not many writers would dare to make sense of The relentless Mukherjee approaches this situation through the eyes of Hannah, "an ideal correspondent, the perfect reporter," who keeps a diary during her stay in England. Hannah tells the story of a `desponder' (a term she ascribed to those who would go to America to make quick money and a quick name), Dr. Aubrey, who sets up a practice in Boston and charges three...