Word: stereos
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...used to whine about my brother Andy having the bigger room, the TV, the stereo! What I would give now to have that little cubicle back! In my first year here I learned about sharing a space, and home was refuge from all the rabble and ruckus of student life. Perhaps the most important part of having a room of your own is being able to close the door behind...
...counted exactly four plates. But mugs and tumblers were tucked into every cabinet, along with a blender and even a funnel. In the basement, snap-shots were tacked on the walls featuring hordes of white-hatted students--presumably the boys--tossing back pitchers with their chums. The stereo system had suffered severe beer-related injuries. In the neglected backyard, amidst scattered beer bottles and broken glass, was a full-sized counter-shaped bar, overturned and rotting on its side. And, in the living room, we found a printed invitation from "Craig, Sean, and Derrick" that read "Come on down...
...Derrick, his housemates and their charming home. It was clear to us, for example, how the bar had reached its final resting place. ("Man, we were totally trashed, and then me and Craig threw the bar out the back door. It was awesome.") The odd thumping noises from the stereo had an equally obvious cause. ("Man, we were totally trashed, and then Craig poured beer into the speakers. It was awesome.") The discolored marks on the carpet sparked legends. ("Man, we weren't even trashed, but Craig and I just suddenly decided to have this barfing contest in the living...
...cliffs, even the startlingly blue ribbon of the Mediterranean Sea; the small, pencil-thin figure of a lone rider, shimmering in the distance like a mirage; the long convoys of Bedouin warriors, dwarfed by the sea of sand--all of these, seen in 70-mm and magnificently accompanied in stereo by Maurice Jarre's glittering music, are worlds away from the reduced-version, letterbox format to which they've been downgraded, albeit unavoidably, on video. The desert cinematography isn't as sensuously poetic as that of "The English Patient," which has evoked comparisons; but there's a stark grandeur...
...real forward about it," says a female undergraduate legacy in an e-mail. "This is in large part because of the stereo-types both here and at home...