Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world of book-making and the book as art is a hidden one--a world of lights in basement windows and the quiet arc of a page over a bed of text. But it is immensely rich and beautiful. In the age of online literature and the overpowering flux of screened words, the work of the Bow and Arrow press takes on a new importance. The handset type of the press upholds the integrity of literature-it upholds the ideals of poetry in which every letter, every word has its exact weight. In which the silence of a stanza break...
...Back to Winthrop, to a super-nice sophomore room on the top floor of the D entry, where the women of the Radcliffe Choral Society are having a quiet Friday night gathering. They are generous with their food, tasty Nutter Butter cookies and Doritos. We tell them about our Spin the Bottle escapade, and they eagerly offer detailed instructions on how to play a "card game" known as "suck and blow." With a chorus of all females and just a single male photographer, however, the game will have to be saved for another night...
...Eventually, the Owl wins out, and we proceeded on to Holyoke Street. The Final Party appears in sight. Suspiciously quiet even as we drew near, though, we concede that absolutely nothing is going on there. A newly bald Owl-punchee confirms our observations by saying "It's over. We're all at the Grille...
...think that [thug] was the real Tupac. Not the Tupac I've known from reading his books or poetry. He was actually a very quiet and introverted person. In public he was just out there; thug like this thug like that...
...nation responds with a resounding ho-hum. Despite America's love affair with conspiracy theories, the trial was notable in its media absence. Court TV televised the opening days, then skipped town, and civil rights leaders, including Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson (who was at the assassination), have been quiet on the ruling. Even conspiracy-lover Oliver Stone allowed his option on the film rights to the murder expire. Of course, a trial that was based on defendant Loyd Jowers' six-year-old claim to a TV reporter that he paid someone (not James Earl Ray) to kill King...