Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front of the gaudy, gilt Buddhist temple we stopped, and approached a crowd of people, children mostly, who were squatting around a circular, white, plastic tub. Many small hands swirled in the tub's water. Each hand held a round, metal loop that had white filter paper stretched across its diameter. Hand and metal-paper extension followed swarms of multi-sized goldfish darting around the tub. Each hand and its loop was eager to win a fish by successfully scooping it out of the tub with the water-weakened paper net. Wise hands targeted the large schools of pinky-sized...
...plays absent-mindedly with his wristwatch, the soft light from his porcelain desk lamp glittering off its metal face. The smile that dances perpetually around the edges of his mouth betrays slight bemusement at all the attention he is getting...
...brick, first and most important. Hardwood floors. Carved-metal staircase rails. Subtle lighting. And, of course, an impression of age, of well-seasoned stateliness that befits the name Harvard, a university founded almost a century and a half before the Revolutionary...
...some, notorious spurts of new construction during the 1960s and 1970s has meant a Harvard experience encased in a realm of concrete, carpeting and metal window frames...
...leakage has affected more than plaster roofs and inhabitants' nerves. Over the years, the water has warped the metal window frames common to buildings of the 60s and 70s, leading to drafts...