Word: sit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hindering a range of reforms to the academic calendar, the curriculum, and student life. At a UC meeting last night, he warned that if the administration did not address the council’s complaints, outlined in a lengthy “Declaration of Grievances,” a sit-in was a “viable option...
...isolating Tehran until it abandons its uranium-enrichment activities and its support for radical groups in the Middle East. But it would be hard for Rice to demand the isolation of Iran when, in a dramatic course correction approved by President Bush, the Secretary of State plans to sit across a table with her Iranian counterpart, Manoucher Mottaki, at a conclave of Middle Eastern foreign ministers focused on stabilizing Iraq...
...Most of the drama takes place at center stage, but the actors often move to sit among the audience. It’s a design that could lead to awkward discomfort, but in this production, it worked to perfection. If ever I felt awkward, it was only because I, like Nick and Honey, felt as though I were intruding upon the marital problems of my hosts...
...Sometimes Chalabi's name would be strangely absent from the discussion, although he was obviously on everyone's mind. We would sit around these White House meetings expressing the hope that a strong, unifying Iraqi leader would emerge, and while you could tell that one name was on the minds of many in the room, no one would utter it. You had the impression that some Office of the Vice President and DOD reps were writing Chalabi's name over and over again in their notes, like schoolgirls with their first crush. At other times, so persistent was the cheer...
...self-destructed,” he says. In discussing his documented installation piece, Camacho (creator of the aforementioned motorized loveseat) has this to say: “The piece was moving for maybe the first couple of hours and then after that, the couch would just sort of sit motionless in the space and the audio continued to play through the headphones.” “It damaged the wall and the floor of the gallery space and eventually it damaged itself so badly that it stopped working,” he says. “I knew...