Word: mice
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unless the myth was an omen for living like a wild animal in the steppes around Lake Baikal. His father Yesugei was poisoned by enemies and his widowed mother Hoelun chased away from their tribe with her brood, including her eldest, nine-year-old Temujin. The outcasts ate field mice and marmots even as they fought off thieves out for their horses, the most precious of nomad property. Bitterness cultivated a heart of iron. After a half-brother grabbed a fish he had hooked, Temujin would kill the offending sibling in a hail of arrows. He never showed remorse...
...date with Michael B. Fertik '00. Guess who won't be attending Mike's New Year's party at "The Fertik Estate?"... An advanced chapter of a thesis belonging to James Celestin '00 was spotted levitating in a River house computer lab... Aliya Iqbal '00 is used to mice in the kitchen but not in her bedroom... Ben Florman '99 spent a recent Thursday night stalking Elizabeth H. Winthrop '01, whom he claimed had stood him up. "Was he that blonde guy who pressed his face to the window?" mused Grafton Street bouncer I. L. Ike Black... Justin G. Muzinich...
...HSPH's news releases often deal directly with ways in which people can stay healthy--far easier for the average newspaper reader to understand than the growth of T cells in mice...
...even then, Fantasia was a critical and box-office flop (Disney's first). Audiences who were pleased to watch the animated cavorting of mice and dwarfs didn't care to be elevated. And from the high end, Walt got contempt. Oskar Fischinger, the famed abstract filmmaker who had worked briefly on the project, called it "a conglomeration of tastelessness." Walt's plans for an "organic" Fantasia, one that would be revived every year with new sequences replacing some old ones, were dropped. It was not until a 1968 reissue, when hippies flocked to it as a head movie, that Fantasia...
...Adding to the evening's overall dazzling effect are the costumes produced by designer David Walker. Whether outfitting a corps of ballerinas or of mice, his costumes are spectacular. Particularly amusing is Mother Ginger (Tony Collins) in his last transvestite performance after 34 years as the massive lady with eight children tucked away under her skirt. And the four children dressed as marzipan sheep are just cute enough to elicit some gasps otherwise forbidden in the restrained world of ballet audience protocol...