Word: moats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Standing at the corner at 2 a.m., a glance down the long roadway is an exercise in stoic symmetry. Ten impressive clubhouses, guarding Prospect Avenue on either side like guards on the bridge over the castle's moat. There's something else, though, something looming thunderously in the background. Getting closer and closer, the thunder inside these castle-guards becomes more apparent. Thumping hip-hop beats; free-flowing beer from the tap; inebriated and unabashed social banter and excitement. It's college nightlife at its best. It's "The Street" in full swing. It's Princeton on a Saturday night...
...Middle America, you get a lot of honest opinions," says Vada, unintentionally insulting the entire left and right coasts. But then, would you want, say, New York City, which is basically a psychiatrist's office surrounded by a moat, to decide whether Wheat Thins need a makeover? "We don't jump on a lot of fads. We can get a more accurate reading on the long-term responses of consumers...
...friends, alone. He stopped his ritual of going to the office to answer his fan mail. Says Lord Richard Attenborough, who appeared with Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix (1966): "He said that he just did not want to live anymore." He withdrew into himself, built a moat around the castle of his isolation. He fed on memories of Gloria--so painful because they were so sweet--and on the survivor's inevitable feelings of loss and guilt...
...they trying to capture the essence of a Harvard student, an esoteric trait of creativity or dedication that marks those who attend this hallowed institution? There is the sense that we are something exotic, not to be bothered or confronted, but observed from a distance. Since there is no moat (anymore?) separating the tourists from Harvard students; as separates them from other rare beasts including okapis and Bengal tigers, they seem to create their own barriers. They watch from a distance as people walk through the Yard and try to tell the Harvard students from the simply mundane Cantabrigians taking...
...Aileen was the smallest Olympian, too small to compete in her real love, swimming. Diving was just something she did instead, and it was altogether different than it is today. "In Antwerp, we dove into the city canal, a moat really, right alongside the boathouse. In those days, the two final dives were literally picked out of a hat. Our second dive was a forward somersault--you had to land feet first. Fortunately, I went last and watched as all the other girls missed theirs. Then I made mine. But the scoring system was so laborious that you often...