Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despotic dorm crew supervisors will make their workers lick the shower stalls clean (three times). Loose floor tiles in the houses will be repaired overnight and daffodils will suddenly appear in every patch where Facility Maintenance's Fast-Gro grass seed failed...
...next step is to patch in some disconnected quotes from Modern Life, like a comic-strip balloon, a '30s car, a nude or an outline drawing of a chair. These can be repeated from picture to picture, thus giving the impression that such images are obsessive, a la Jasper Johns. This will lend an expectation of profundity to the series. Why profound? Because Salle, as everyone now knows, has discovered important metaphors of the meaningless overload of images in contemporary life. Thus his pictures enable critics to kvetch soulfully about the dissociation of signs and meanings, and to praise what...
...Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) van skidded on an ice patch on Interstate 84 and spun into a full 360-degree turn, swerving into a ditch on the side of the road and turning over on its side, according to Paul L. Rosenstein '92, the driver of a second PBHA...
...Arab governments standing against Saddam may make amends to him after the war. Two exceptions: Syria's President Hafez Assad, who has a long-running personal rivalry with Saddam, and the Emir of Kuwait. At the same time, Jordan's King Hussein and President Bush are expected to patch things up. Bush still prefers the King to the more radical regime that would most likely replace him, while Hussein is eager for renewed financial assistance from the West and the Saudis...
Prickly as porcupines, Deborah and Nick Fifer (Bette Midler and Woody Allen) wander the aisles of a shopping mall that probably exceeds Ralph's palace in square footage, confessing infidelities and trying to patch up a marriage that only this morning looked as solid as the British monarchy. They are constantly distracted by the consumerism bustling around them and by a mime (Bill Irwin) who is as nosy as he is silent and maybe the most amusing thing about the film...