Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days all the tunnels and shafts had to be dug with pick, shovel and explosives--backbreaking work. Now there are circular drills mounted on caterpillar treads, which lurch forward chewing at the soft rock, making a hellish racket that changes to a shrill glass-crunching scream when the teeth hit a pocket of "potch" (the gray waste near opal that runs in veins through the matrix). These drills are 4 ft. in diameter, and they create vaults in the tunnel roofs--beautiful, arched Romanesque spaces cut in the creamy pink-veined stone. It is troglodyte architecture: dense, theatrical and intensely...
According to the study, which was published in the journal Nature, women who are ovulating tend to favor manly-looking men--big jaws, prominent eyebrows, larger overall size--you know, the kind of Tarzan stuff that is supposed to scream virility. During the other three weeks of the month, however, women seem to prefer the smoother, more feminized models--sensitive-looking types who would presumably be more likely to stick with Jane and nurture Boy over the long haul...
...accent better than I can! I found some good friends among the people who lived in my dorm and generally had a very good time after that first rough month getting used to people and living with them. I found an activity I truly enjoyed, witnessed my first Primal Scream (I still shudder), chose a concentration, and found love at the First-Year Formal. There was also the drama of "blocking." I prayed each night before the housing lottery that I wouldn't get "Quadded." Fortunately, I ended up in Quincy House, which I liked for several different reasons...
...Primal Scream snuck up on me in December of 1996. I had no idea why people were screaming outside my window in Weld at midnight, so I checked it out and was more than slightly confused to see several dozen undergraduates running around the Yard--sans clothing--egged on by more than 2,000 onlookers. Whoa...
...with his teen's seeing an R-rated flick, he can just buy the kid's ticket himself and be on his way. Um, no. Not only is this an incredibly embarrassing situation for young teens, possibly on their first date, but it might not even be allowed. When Scream came out, I was eager to see it; and my dad drove me, a couple of friends and my younger brother to the theater and went in to buy us tickets. They informed him that he would have to go into the movie with us; his permission was not sufficient...