Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dean's Office and the masters of Lowell House have banned the game on the grounds that it encourages stalking and surveillance of fellow students while making it more difficult for campus police to differentiate between truly suspect persons and overzealous assassins running around in all black with painted plastic guns and Nerf darts. Given the recent thefts in the courtyard of Mather and assault outside of Langdell Hall, such concerns have been given more weight than ever before...
...also isn't every day that she and her staff at the Leverett House Dining Hall scrap the steel trays of oatmeal to bring out brightly patterned fabrics, flowers, fountains, and, yes--a blue plastic pool...
...also isn't every day that she and her staff at the Leverett House Dining Hall scrap the steel trays of oatmeal to bring out brightly patterned fabrics, flowers, fountains, and, yes - a blue plastic pool...
...from extremely possessive listeners who expect her to maintain an image appropriate to their favorite raging Ani DiFranco song. They may know all the words, but how hard do such fans really listen? The same kids who cheered a girl who screamed "FUCK THEM!" in the middle of "Little Plastic Castle" ("People talk/About my image/Like I come in two dimensions/Like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind/Like what I happen to be wearing/The day that someone takes a picture/Is my new statement for all of womankind") later talked through her songs as if she were, a hologram on display...
...from extremely possessive listeners who expect her to maintain an image appropriate to their favorite raging Ani DiFranco song. They may know all the words, but how hard do such fans really listen? The same kids who cheered a girl who screamed "FUCK THEM!" in the middle of "Little Plastic Castle" ("People talk/About my image/Like I come in two dimensions/Like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind/Like what I happen to be wearing/The day that someone takes a picture/Is my new statement for all of womankind") later talked through her songs as if she were a hologram on display...