Word: planking
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...mainstage space. They are in love with it. Stepping inside, the audience ventures almost shyly onto a vast Siberian wasteland, its cellophane spaces crackling with emptiness, its border indistinct. Mountains of some synthetic material rim the flatness of every available inch of the hall's acres of aisle and plank; throughout the production, unexpected portions of this flatness rise and fall, thrusting the landscape of events into strange non-Euclidean configurations. A friend of the production has advanced the hypothesis that Lachow conceived the whole thing as an experiment in topology. It's possible. Ruling out any element of interpretation...
...SINCE candidate Ronald Reagan's unforgettable announcement that trees are America's leading source of air pollution has the plank kingdom dominated national headlines the way it did last week. In the course of planning the multi year $35-million renovation of the Houses that will begin this summer, Harvard administrators decided that the project will involve ripping down the ivy that has covered most of the buildings' walls for about a century. After the renovation; is over, officials said, not a leaf of the eponymous plant will remain on any House...
...will suffer the same fate as hundreds of other moderate political leaders and popular activists who have been murdered in the past two years. This is not to say that President Duarte is unopposed The National Republican Alliance (ARENA) has put up a candidate who is running on a plank described by the Boston Globe as "direct military rule and unrestrained repression against anyone thought to sympathize with the left." Former ambassador White has called ARENA'S candidate, Maj. Roberto D' Abuisson a "psychopathic killer" because of D' Abuisson's purported role in the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero...
...shattering of the American dream makes many Americans ripe for ultra-nationalism. Economic crises usually bring extreme political polarization as individuals are desperate to find a way out of the mass in which they find themselves and their country. We can not let a major plank of the war buildup ride through uncontested and hope people conclude that militarism is not right. Again, this is why fighting the draft now, explaining the essence of U.S. foreign policy, and pointing out the causes of poverty are the best ways to achieve true democracy, peace and equality...
Despite the number of students at the open meeting who questioned the minority provision, the assembly in a straw vote later last night rejected, 22-18, a proposal calling for the plank to be dropped from the constitution...