Word: splash
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...wired. Near an outside corner of the school is "the penthouse," where at night, under a mural of the U.S. flag and the words WE WANT A DRUG-FREE AMERICA, the crackhead prostitutes of Alabama Avenue sell themselves for $2 or $3. Every morning the school custodians splash bleach against the doorways to wash away the stench of urine. Behind the building are the projects -- public housing and empty lots. On the playground, thieves have carried off whatever of the jungle gym is not bolted to the ground...
Whatever the scenario, the Harvard men's swimming team (which trounced its first three opponents and had visions of Eastern and possibly NCAA honors dancing in its heads) got a splash of chlorine in its eyes Tuesday at Brown...
...HASN'T JOHN ADAMS' OPERA THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER made the same sort of splash as the composer's earlier Nixon in China? The controversial subject matter -- the murder of an American Jew by Palestinian terrorists -- may be one reason, and Peter Sellars' murky staging at the premiere last year in Brussels another. But the new Nonesuch original-cast CD (which coincides with an updated production in San Francisco) reveals the real explanation: Adams' lush score is fundamentally an oratorio, lacking Nixon's sharp characterization and big set pieces. This, however, is good news for the recording, for Klinghoffer...
Representing the cultural elite, a determined Crimson squad took to the water, and the season, with a splash at West Point...
...been illegal since 1985 but is easily obtainable on the black market. Others frown on drug and alcohol use, stressing that intoxication is extraneous to the rave experience. "The rave scene isn't about fashion or getting high," says DJ Disaster, 26, who is co- producing "Psycho Splash '92," a rave taking place this week in an aquatic theme park outside St. Louis. "It's about forgetting who's going to be President and having a good time...