Word: pit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...players' dress contrasted with the shabby browns worn by the commoners in the audience. "At first we thought it looked bizarre," says Madden, "but what was so brilliant was how she captured in costume how extraordinarily intoxicating that play must have been to the grubby creatures down in the pit watching...
August of 1998 brought a new look to the Harvard Square's cylindrical kiosk, a landmark of the Pit. Apple computers gave this T elevator entrance a make-over with an oversized black-and-white "Think Different" advertisement for the company. One MBTA public affairs executive confesses, "It was kind of an eyesore right there. The Apple ad makes the entrance to the station a lot nicer." Another benefit? The MBTA receives $45,000 in revenue for each three month advertising cycle. Apple, in charge of the kiosk's upkeep, outfitted the cylinder with the latest in anti-vandalism technology...
Pilgrim estimates that "the Pit crowd," histerm for the group of people who loiter outsidethe Harvard Square T entrance, is responsible for60 percent of theft from the Coop. He attributesthis to the high incidence of drug use heperceives among this group. "There are a lot ofkids selling books for drug money," he says...
...slab all the way down to Columbus Circle. At 2 o'clock, bundled against winter, complete to her L.A. Gear sneakers, she will board a van for a five-hour ride to visit John in the Elmira Correctional Facility. Door to door, counting the visiting period and pit stops, the round-trip ordeal will take between 18 and 20 hours. Along the way, Mrs. Rosado, a diabetic, will inject herself with insulin, and she will try to steal some sleep...
While Nash has mastered the cinema verite of violence--kids being torn into by pit bulls, head-to-head collisions of tractor trailers, elephant-on-elephant violence--Nelson's company, Termite Art Productions, has focused on grossing people out (though it also makes programs for PBS). His Busted on the Job specials highlight food employees hocking loogies into tacos and an uber-Dilbertian secretary defecating on her boss's chair. Nelson's new Busted Everywhere for Fox is more of the same. He doesn't go along with Nash's excuses about storytelling or moralizing. "We thought it was funny...