Word: primal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Currier diners let out a primal scream a few weeks early during last Sunday's dinner. The fun began when one table began clapping, apparently in response to a humorous comment. Immediately, other tables followed suit, and soon nearly everyone in the dining hall was clapping. The noisemaking increased, however, as students began yelling, screaming and making up table cheers. One table engaged in a "Penis War," in which participants progressively escalated their volume levels while shouting the word "penis." Several minutes into the revelry, one table's diners stood up and began to do the wave. Dining hall workers...
...generic Harvard experience is preppy, snooty and New Englandy, few will miss it. But we should all graduate with some sense of having gone to the same institution, having shared some of the same memories, having more in common than having gone to the Harvard-Yale game and the Primal Scream...
Buddhism has as many paradises as there are Buddhas. Each enlightened being has his or her own heaven, a concept probably borrowed from Hinduism, in which gods and goddesses inhabit a series of heavens. The primal heaven, however, was probably the one called Sukhavati, which may itself have borrowed some elements from the florid paradises of Zoroastrian Persia (whence the word pairi-daeza, or enclosure, the origin of our word paradise). As Sakyamuni, the Buddha of our cosmos, teaches, if the denizens of Sukhavati "desire cloaks of different colors and many hundred thousand colors, then with these very best cloaks...
Nominees: Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire; William H. Macy, Fargo; Armin Mueller-Stahl, Shine; Edward Norton, Primal Fear; James Woods, Ghosts of Mississippi...
...Will Win: McDormand plays the more likable character, and her work in Lone Star and Primal Fear cemented a solid year. Still, don't count Blethyn...