Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anality, still in my very own bathroom. I was told that it was ludicrous to alternate the strokes with which I brought the razor across my face while shaving. For me, shaving does not require a chart with which to map out the attack on my five-o'clock shadow. How I shave depends on which hand I'm holding my beer with at the time. It depends on whether I've had too many beers. It depends on lots of things...
Marcia Rieke sits on a mound of dirt on a cold mountaintop, nearly two miles up in the clear Arizona sky, watching the sun go down and worrying. A shadow slowly creeps past her, cast by a nearby tan, four-story building that looks like a gigantic bread box. Inside the bread box is the Multiple Mirror Telescope, the world's third most powerful telescope. It looks like no other. There is no glistening dome; it might be a four-story barn. But there are 800 * tons of it, and it turns. The whole structure can pirouette 360 degrees, enormously...
...freestyle afforded the renewal of the local rivalry between Suhs and Boston University's Sybil Smith. Yale's Lisa O'Dell, however, threw a shadow on that showdown by smashing the EWSL record in her victory. O'Dell became the first Eastern swimmer to slide under the formidable 23 second barrier with a time...
...Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government the late President's vision of equality in the public workplace casts barely a thin shadow over the institution dedicated to the pursuit of the value of public management. In fact, students emerging from the school's prestigious Senior Executive Fellows Program--in which government agencies pay up to $17,000 per student for management training--will conclude that women are hardly protagonists in the public debate...
Mutual deterrence. Against a sound track of feet crunching in the snow, the camera pans over a virgin white expanse to the shadow of a man. A somber voice-over intones, "After 20 years of walking in the footsteps of giants, isn't it odd that George Bush has left no footprints at all? It's almost like he was never there." This TV commercial had not been used, but Dole aides artfully leaked news of its existence last week. They called it their "tactical nuclear weapon," ready to air if Bush tried any negative ploy or increased his lead...