Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ruby, oh Ruby. She sits cross-legged on a rug in her room and watches the wallpaper slide. In her mind are the sorts of things dreamt by sea creatures. But the things she hears! Music that hasn't been made with such an air of vintage and heartfelt wist since America came down from the frantic high of the '60s and the outrageous trip of the '70s. No more Lucies in the skies, no more fields of strawberries; only Ruby walking alone through her wallpaper tracks with the ghosts of a faded age, shaking hands with Kinks, Beatles...
...just took ahold of himself and went to [urinal] one," Helgen said. "He braved the arctic cold, so to speak. I think every guy understands that there are these rules to adhere to in the men's room...
...have probably heard, for example, that Liam Neeson signed to star in The Phantom Menace before he was able to read the screenplay. Neeson later joked that when he eventually got his hands on the script, security was so tight that Darth Vader himself was standing guard outside the room. (Neeson was, of course, well-paid for his enforced ignorance.) You probably know about the sandstorm in Tunisia that demolished most of the Mos Espa spaceport set when location shooting was only half-finished...
...Although there was no formal announcement of the screening, word got around. A Pforzheimer sophomore who spoke on the condition of anonymity said she was riding home on the shuttle when a friend told her "Cockpit" was playing in the dining room...
...developing myopia, or nearsightedness, later in life. In fact, says the team, the more intense the light, the greater the chance of myopia. Of children who had slept with a night light before the age of two, 34 percent became myopic; of those who had slumbered under a room light, the figure rose to 55 percent. Meanwhile, only 10 percent of those who had slept in the dark as infants were later reported as nearsighted...