Word: shoehorned
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...year-old building’s façade and vestibule were restored while the theatre itself underwent a drastic modernization. Looking back on the old—the walls are adorned with old playbills and posters advertising events from generations past—the Theatre nevertheless manages to shoehorn in a 270-seat theater with a new sound system, motorized lights, and a stage thrust that also serves as a scenery elevator or a orchestra pit, depending on the production’s need. Offices and new rehearsal space fill the rest of the carefully designed six-story building...
...Core Curriculum if professors ask for such a designation. But since whatever prestige might once have been attached to designing and teaching a Core class has been destroyed, there is no longer any incentive to improve courses for a dying system. Many professors are understandably unwilling to shoehorn their courses into the Core administration’s absurd one-syllabus-fits-all model, which requires midterms and finals. None of these problems are new—they have been mentioned by students for years and were mentioned by the Task Force on General Education last year. But little to nothing...
...shared his faith and his vision of compassionate conservatism, I had been a very good soldier. When members of his senior staff mocked the plan as the "f___ing faith-based initiative," I didn't say a word. When his legislative-affairs team summarily dismissed our attempts to shoehorn our funding into the budget, I smiled and continued trying to work neatly within the system. When I heard staff privately deriding evangelical Christians because they were so easily seduced by White House power, I raised an eyebrow but not a ruckus. Like everyone else in the small faith-based office...
Lyrically the band is subpar. While there are moments of wit, the songs are largely standard light hip-hop fare: dancing, sex, and of course, self-aggrandizement, without many memorable lines. When they try to shoehorn social consciousness into the album, as in the closer track, “Union,” it’s incongruous and unsuccessful...
...warrens, her street--once home to working-class Polish-American families--is losing its tight-knit character. But at least Kovarek owns her home. Writer Michael Glynn, 49, his wife and two kids rent an 850-sq.-ft. apartment in Santa Monica, Calif. There is barely enough space to shoehorn a tree in at Christmas, and Glynn's office doubles as his daughter's bedroom. Glynn and his wife considered buying a house when they married in 1994, but, he says, "I thought houses were overvalued." Now they can't afford their neighborhood, even though their income has grown considerably...