Word: overrunning
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...city, especially the parts overrun by Harvard, has always been famed for its godlessness, and, even when the students leave, sad to say, that remains the truth. For Harvard Square, the local icons remain ice cream flavors, and in the rest of Cambridge, the largest congregations gather under the lights to watch beery softball games. But the pace does slow down a little as the weather gets warmer...
...Godard signature remains: scynicism continues to overrun pathos, and absurdity overpowers both. But if events in Every Man require a suspension of disbelief, Godard forces one to see things his way; with surgical grace the camera constantly reminds us of his insistence. Similarly, by rehearsing actors and dictating every breath to the point of mechanization, he compounds the crime by which an oppressively technocratic society of bankers brackets his characters. The dictatorial directorial net extends outward: "Do you really want to see a movie?" Isabelle Huppert asks, entering the director's landscape for the first time, looking directly into...
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Since the Class of '83 was unexpectedly large, Department 91--which received 91.5 per cent of its income from students' room rent and College facility fees last year--took in more money than it had projected, but high maintenance and heat costs caused an overrun in building expenses, a Department 91 report presented to CHUL members states...
What will come next is unclear--a legislative majority, and a larger electoral majority, continue to back rent and condominium controls. Without strict guidelines, they reason, Cambridge--a city where dozens of people vie for every available housing opening--would be overrun by young professionals. Studies predict neighborhoods would be destroyed and the working class would disappear. But the other side argues that gentrification of the city would increase the tax base and not hurt the elderly or the poor but only "student transients...