Word: skies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jousting. Sky-high slides and long lines for Sno-Cones. Free fried dough. Violent Femmes and the Velcro challenge. Saturday afternoon in the MAC Quad offered Harvard students a chance to experience all of these activities and events along with 3,000 other college kids with spring fever. For a minute, we almost thought we were at Brown...
...traffic controllers are the true macho men of sky biz--cowboy choreographers who get the dozens of planes over New York City's airports "lined up like Rockettes." As long as Glen and Les Charles' script focuses on the controllers' wayward bravado, the film has the tang of an old Howard Hawks film about tough guys under pressure. But like its frazzled hero, Nick (John Cusack), this ambitious, well-cast movie goes haywire when Nick's rivalry with psycho-genius Billy Bob Thornton turns into a game of sexual oneupsmanship. Tin tailspins into silliness and never regains its flight pattern...
...Built and inhabited isolated cabin to alter national consciousness." Or Theodore J. Kaczynski '62: "Built and inhabited isolated cabin to alter national consciousness." You can discover a new element, build a nuclear reactor out of Tinker Toys, or save children from burning buildings on alternate Thursdays. The sky's the limit--well, the sky, and the automatic bullet-formatting of your version of Microsoft Word...
...Mother Nature saves my sanity. I gaze up through the corridors of skyscrapers and notice a light glow in the charcoal sky. Sunrise. The promise of warmth, of a new day. I am overcome by a wave of serenity. A smile draws across my face...
...think it went really well," Aaron reports. He is about to launch into a full-scale retelling, but by the look in our eyes, it's clear that we're not interested. We head back out onto the street. The sun is high in the sky and the cloud cover has dispersed. We squint and stumble around the corner...