Word: opened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While most people are making lists of gifts to buy kith and kin this holiday season, three generous souls in Kennett Square, Pa., have been reviewing final plans for a brand-new after-school program, scheduled to open in January. John and Denise Wood, both 81, and Marshall Newton, 66, have been recruiting fellow retirees, along with high school and college students, to serve as volunteer instructors in a range of after-school activities--including computer sciences, drama, entrepreneurship, sewing, sculpture, chess and dance--for the greater Kennett community's middle school children...
...Crenshaw is an inner-city school, and doesn't let you forget it. Doorways are chained and gated; security guards outnumber groundskeepers. Despite a school-district policy of open enrollment, 81% of the 2,733 students are African American; most of the others are Hispanic. The school has only four white students, and Caucasian visitors are so rare that students automatically assume they're members of Meriwether's family...
...great influence on the country's art. But in Edo, a more secular and even demotic imagination began to assert itself--marked, writes Singer, by "bold, sometimes brash expression...and a playful outlook on life in general." This happened because Japanese society, in the new capital, became somewhat more open to change. Not very much, but a little, and then a little more. The once despised merchants and entrepreneurs, and other commoners too, were developing their own tastes. They became an important cultural force. So did a kind of city mentality. Edo Japan saw a great expansion of popular culture...
...wasn't cheap for the state of Texas to bring us four days of entertainment, but it had to be a bargain compared with the $90 million Universal spent on Meet Joe Black. I see Nick Cage as Gurule and Courtney Love as LuAnn. My phone lines are open...
...this hectic biology occurs under cover of trees, which creates a darkness equally serene and oppressive. When we finally walk out onto an open granite ledge, I am glad for the light...