Word: pit
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...concerned not with social conditions but psychic ones--boredom, isolation, acidity, glee, the feral thrusts of the libido and a weirdly sinister expectancy. His new work owed less to Evans and Dorothea Lange than it did to the tabloid-news photographer Weegee, the king of every New York tar pit...
...Quad is Frontierland. The fake brick and simulated history of Liberty Square makes way for the real and dangerously uneven brick sidewalks of truly historical Cambridge. Street entertainment at Disney World abounds, as familiar characters and jovial musicians roam the parks. Harvard Square characters include mysterious brides and punk Pit People; musicians include Beatles cover bands and wandering a cappella groups. (Auditions and applications for such Harvard groups are as demanding and highly selective as Disney performer auditions...
...crowd of 30,000 assortedly-pierced spectators who witnessed the halfpipe, staged in the blue splendor of the Wasatch mountains at the Park City Resort. How different is this sport? There was a warm-up act, the band Save Ferris playing at avalanche -inducing volume to the slushy mosh pit that formed in front of it. There's a sound track to snowboarding too, as each rider selects a song (from a pre-approved list) to play during his or her run, although most of the riders were listening to their own tunes. Kass had the AC/DC cranked - in part...
Penang's snake temple has a problem. The deadly pit vipers that have made this Chinese Taoist temple their refuge since the 1850s have, according to a tourist brochure, "mysteriously" disappeared. "One day they just stopped coming," says the temple's custodian. We are standing at the back of the shrine where the view, which once stretched over the vipers' nesting grounds to the mountains beyond, is now blocked by a semiconductor plant. "Yes, it's a mystery," he says, with a wink and a nod toward the factory...
Popular Cambridge politician and former mayor Anthony D. Galluccio said yesterday that he intends to throw his hat into the upcoming race for state senate—a run that will pit him against well-known Cambridge Democratic State Rep. Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 as well as three candidates from abutting communities...