Word: miasma
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Trading for Jeff Garcia and drafting Kellen Winslow led some to believe the Browns were primed to finally capture the AFC North, and a dominating performance against Baltimore in Week 1 had many thinking beyond the first round of the playoffs. Then the old familiar miasma again rose from her cozy quarters in the depths of Lake Erie and fell upon the Brownies in full force. Week 2 saw Winslow break his foot (done for the year) and Courtney “Band-Aid” Brown come down with yet another malady (also done for the year). Honestly...
...Toro takes Mike Mignola’s cult-fave comic to new depths, adding meat to the hero and villains, expanding the back-story, and throwing in a crucial monster-human love story that the books lacked. But Del Toro’s adoration for the off-kilter miasma of Mignola’s world and the monster-fighting monster is also evident in his attention to the bizarre detail and playful spirit of the comic...
...that residents suffered such grave indignities as being unable to eat with their blockmates on occasion. Mealtime crowds, however, are a small price to pay for the privilege of luxurious accommodations in the most centrally located residential house on campus. Indeed, the “house community” miasma usually deployed to justify interhouse restrictions disregards that, alas, at Harvard all house communities are not created equal. Adams’ proximity to Harvard Yard makes it the most convenient venue on campus, while its superior kitchen facilities serve up delicious feasts and its posh lobby and sumptuous dining hall...
...using matches, snicking his stick. Metaphorical: Smoking can represent passive surrender (one ingests the drug without a much greater expenditure of energy than an opium den denizen) or an active assertion of ego (exhaling smoke extends your "space," creates a cloud, a gentle miasma, a box around you). A cigarette is an undomesticated pet: a tiny dragon (drag-on) between the fingers, allowing you to emphasize a verbal point with a plume of smoke or, when puffed, with the dragon's flash of fire...
...shark, leads to the double-height circular conference room, now staffed with Saatchi icons. Offices that once held bureaucrats - each with its own unique marble fireplace - now contain single works like Hirst's giant (full) ashtray. It's not the only work that assaults the senses: the miasma of Wilson's 20:50 is all-pervasive. The work is genuinely terrifying; the waist-high oily surface is so reflective that it's invisible as you look "down" into the roof and the sky. The art all has immediate impact - and a dark side. Is this the equivalent of a mild...