Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Cambridge Rindge and Latin lets out for the day, the afternoon sun hits the school full in the face. Plain-clothes security guards watch kids pour out onto the street. On Broadway, students line up against the wall of the Gustave M. Solomons Transportation Career Center to wait for the bus. A block further east, Angelo's Pizza overflows. Alex and his friends push their way in regardless...
...inexpensive T-shirt with plain lettering. (Suggested locations: The Coop, $11.95; J. August...
...frequently, extremely tender at times but just as often engaged in brittle clashes of ego. "If that story is typical of your previous writing," Ted wrote after David sent him some of his fiction, "then it's obvious why no one wants to publish your stuff--it's just plain bad, by anyone's standard...
Minnesotans are polite people who tend to deal with provocation by sidestepping it, ignoring it, chuckling at it, trying to find a charitable explanation. But the Governor, in plain English, is a Yahoo who has never confessed to a single regret or second thought and who struts around St. Paul, a big small town, with a retinue of bodyguards, emitting a great air of celebrity, scorning the local press while courting the national media. People do their best to grin and go along with it, but eventually you have to tell him to shut the hell...
...plain and sometimes ugly truth is that when this sort of work sticks its jaw out into the wider world, its jaw turns to glass. That is surely the case with the lightning rod of the show, Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary (1996). The work, which has now been placed behind Plexiglas, with a velvet rope in front and a guard standing by to protect it from any angry viewers, is a perfectly competent rendering of a Christian icon--a central figure on a ground of gold. The drawing of an African Mary (Ofili is of Nigerian descent...