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...harsh lights of a theatre under construction, with saws and staple-guns buzzing in the background and sawdust covering the floor, Ur seemed fully at home. “We’re building a forced-perspective stage,” he says enthusiastically of the set, gesturing to a geometrically confusing structure rising behind...
...dung-and-sawdust scented world of bull riding, the verb ride is precisely defined. It does not mean "to sit atop a bucking, spinning, hurtling, heaving beast that wants nothing more than to throw you to kingdom come." That is merely to get on the bull. To ride it you must get on and stay there-for eight seconds. Which, in layman's time, is about six seconds longer than impossible...
...drops out of vet school, hops a freight train and winds up tending to the menagerie of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a third-rate Depression-era traveling circus. What goes on under the big top is nothing compared with the show backstage. In a sawdust-and-tinsel novel reminiscent of Robertson Davies, Jacob nurses giraffes, bunks with a surly dwarf, falls in love with a sexy horsewoman, gets life lessons from a singularly intelligent elephant and learns what to do when the band plays Stars and Stripes Forever: it's circus code for disaster...
...homosexuality is a sin. Perhaps, but so is divorce, a problem that is just as pervasive in the Christian community as it is in the general population. I would remind Christians of John 7:3 where Jesus says, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” People should not condemn their peers for their sins because they too are guilty...
...volunteered at a New Orleans high school over intersession. She said the work over spring break proved just as emotionally draining. Even after her return to campus, she had trouble parting with New Orleans.“Every couple hours or so, I would be coughing up sawdust. When I wasn’t even crying, I was just not talking,” she said of her first days back.Colleston A. Morgan Jr. ’07, who led the team Datar was a part of, also found the experience difficult to explain to others.Yesterday in the Science Center?...