Word: slams
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...often seems that loud is every child's middle name, but this lovely book should tame the rowdiest tyke by dwelling on sound, not noise. The blue house is a summer place that, after the season ends and the suitcases bang closed and the car doors slam shut, falls silent. Or does it? Banks' poetic text and Hallensleben's richly impastoed paintings guide us through the deserted rooms, evoking the dripping of a kitchen faucet, the buckling and crackling of frost on the windows, the ruffling of a cat shaking snowflakes from its fur, even the silence of a bird...
...while The Salient avoids directing its ire at members of the GLBT community themselves, its hostility to the BGLTSA, presumably as a consequence of the latter’s lefty leanings, is overt: an ad for The Salient asks, “Do you cringe involuntarily at acronyms like SLAM, BGLTSA and PETA...
...When political activism does occur on campus it is wishy-washy and bland. Even the most radical elements of the student body, such as the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), are surprisingly tame by historical standards. Instead of appealing to socialist notions of equality in their quest for higher wages, they couched their stance in terms of cost of living and prevailing wage rates. And in lieu of occupying Mass. Hall, they sent workers’ children to Larry Summers’ house on Halloween to ask for money for their families—only to realize that...
...custodial workers’ cause has gained attention on campus this year through the activities of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which argues Harvard should pay its workers a "Living Wage...
...obvious allusion to the living wage campaign," Zaidi said. "We didn’t want to be affiliated with the SLAM movement...