Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of these petty objections can overcome the fact that, if properly approached, the Quad Ice Project is a thing of lyrical and exotic beauty. For this to become readily apparent to the uninitiated requires the willing viewer to assume a more poetic and fantastical frame of mind than is his wont. Tap the vein of poetry latent within us all. Think, not bathroom windows, but towering glaciers. Or, if the bathroom window resemblance remains inescapable, try to overcome its more prosaic implications. These are not ordinary frosted windows; these are the bathroom windows of your dreams, though slightly colder...
...this point the eager ice appreciator must withdraw slightly from the artistic symbosis he doubtless has acheived. The purpose of the instailation, after all, is to challenge the perceptions, not to litter the Quad with frozen corpses. That would be neither artistic nor santitary. It is time for the seeker after art and truth to return to the academic paradise that is Harvard, to a warmer and less esoteric world...
While recognizing Radcliffe's actual status would doubtlessly entail working through a century and a half's bureaucratic entanglements, such entanglements exist to be worked through. And Radcliffe's vestigial hierarchy at times presents very real problems. For example, when leaks began plaguing the QRAC several years ago, the Quad's athletic facility remained closed for six months while Radcliffe and Harvard officials quarrelled over how repairs should proceed...
Marketers view Iowans as stubbornly resistant to change; they are unlikely to be the first to try new types of products. "I would take a new tartar- control toothpaste into Des Moines or the Quad Cities because it wouldn't require people to change their behavior by brushing their teeth more," theorizes Watts Wacker, senior vice president of the survey-research firm of Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. "But I wouldn't take a tartar-control mouthwash there, because that requires change in usage patterns." Iowans are even contrariant enough to believe still in the superiority of American automobiles: foreign-car sales...
...time before many of them are available in GM cars. The company is still struggling to streamline a lumbering bureaucracy that has slowed a new car's progress from drawing board to showroom. In fact, some of the new technologies that GM was showing off last week -- like the Quad 4 engine that offers eight-cylinder power in an economic four-cylinder design -- were first offered in similar form in cars built by competitors...