Word: pined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carnesale has replaced former Provost Jerry R. Green's print of Old Harvard Yard with a vivid oil painting by Milton Avery. Fresh green plants hang in the windows of his Massachusetts Hall enclave, and three pine boxes bearing the words "In," "Out" and "Too Hard," sit awaiting the white-haired administrator's papers...
...friends used to live in homes," says a woman who lives in a tent. "Now they're camping." This was outside Telluride, the too-precious- for-words old Colorado mining gem that perches way up there in the San Juan Range like a jay's nest in a ponderosa pine. The woman, Jill Mattioli, 28, used to have an apartment in town -- back when she could afford it. Now she lives off in the woods near others who service Telluride in manifold ways but whose purchasing power is so weak they sleep in their cars, in campers, in condemned shacks...
...right side of the stage was the "HORDE Workshop." Set underneath a grove of pine trees there was, among other carnival-like attractions, a "rain tent," probably intended to provide patrons respite from the summer sun. Mother Nature had rendered that obsolete...
...probably not. But the antagonists are, as usual, worlds apart. Players say the owners are stupid, owners say the players are greedy, and both sides are right; they make one pine for simpler days when the owners were greedy and the players were stupid. As for the fans, they feel sympathy for neither side. To them, the conflict has all the profundity of an argument between millionaires over a golf-course bet. Especially now, in the middle of one of the most exciting seasons in memory, what the fans care about is the game. At the moment, they seem...
...heavy use of carpeting and fabric, which trap sound instead of distributing it, and partly because singers like things that way. Judging by the opening performance of The Marriage of Figaro, Christie got his wish. The theater is handsome without being ostentatious. The interior is stark, but the warm pine walls save it from being dreary, impeccable modern. According to acoustician Derek Sugden, "Wood can be death unless it's stiff and thick. A softer grain will absorb low frequencies, which means there can be no richness in the sound." He and the Hopkinses decided to use pitch pine left...