Word: silver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what if the new Radcliffe Quadrangle Ice Project uncannily resembles those cunningly frosted windows with the little silver strips running through them which we all associate with the common bathroom? So what if the thick metal poles which surround the actual chickenwire-and-ice construction lend the whole a surprising resemblance to a whimsical construction site? So what if it's far too cold to visit the whole installation for more than 10 seconds, even when one is fortified with all the hot cider that Cabot House can furnish...
Beanpot Championships would certainly light up some faces here in Cambridge, but they're not the biggest 'Pots in town. Harvard has been known to take bigger pots home. Such as the ECAC Championship trophy. And a silver platter for finishing second in the NCAA Tournament...
...backlash against development was probably inevitable, particularly in rapidly developing Western states, where many residents consider densely packed urban centers uninhabitable. Says Gerald Silver, president of the Homeowners of Encino, Calif.: "We were in favor of progress until we found out what it looks like." This urban claustrophobia is largely a bipartisan phenomenon. In conservative Orange County, Calif., Republicans have joined with liberal Democrats on a ballot initiative to require developers to pay for the impact their projects have on city streets and services. Says Thomas Rogers, a co-sponsor of the measure and a self-described right-winger...
...stage show in New York. It was not the first rock musical -- Galt MacDermot's Hair preceded it, as did the Who's "rock opera" Tommy -- but its impact was extraordinary. Lloyd Webber hated Director Tom O'Horgan's lurid, heavenzapoppin' staging, which featured a transvestite Herod, Judas in silver briefs and Christ emerging from a huge chalice clad in a $20,000 glittering robe. Christian as well as Jewish groups protested the show as offensive, but it ran for 720 performances before heading off to the West End and more than 20 other countries...
...trouble overcoming his part's split personality. Having won the audience's admiration as a sweet and likable character in the first part of the show, Gardner is less convincing as Jesus' betrayer. He is simply too nice to have sold someone to the Romans for thirty pieces of silver. Still, when he sings the show's opening number, "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord," the audience knows the production is going to be a good...