Word: subterranean
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...only venture below ground for the occasional load of laundry or late-night jolt of Dr. Pepper, you’re not in the know. The mundane floors we tread upon conceal a lode of treasures. In search of basement gems, FM descended into the subterranean depths of fair Harvard...
...next stop on this subterranean tour is a conference room that doubles as an office. Among the papers and cartons that were scattered on the wooden table sit five industrial packets of Jell-O, a dead giveaway that this wasn’t a typical corporate boardroom, but a place where food is paramount. The use of the table as a makeshift filing cabinet suggests that even those on the business side spend most of their time in the actual kitchen...
...eight or nine lashes, but they snap and sting; the soldiers wind up for their work like Olympic discus throwers. At Jesus' death there's no earthquake, only rain. Zeffirelli suggests that the response to a Savior's death would be the tears of angel, not the rumblings of subterranean spirits...
Behind the turnaround is Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, Harvard’s unofficial safety czar. At the beginning of the assault wave, the University struggled to craft a coherent response. Safety responsibilities are decentralized among dozens of Harvard officials. But in this cramped subterranean setting, Kidd has pushed key decision-makers into close contact...
...their upstairs neighbors, Ed and Trixie Norton (Art Carney and Joyce Randolph). Unlike most other sitcom couples of the '50s, the Honeymooners were not middle class but the working poor. Ralph earned $62 a week driving a bus; Norton worked, as he liked to say, as an engineer of subterranean sanitation-in the sewer system ... Ralph was even louder, brasher and more abrasive [then] ... Alice was also louder and more argumentative, and Norton was dopier, unlikely as that may sound. Why does The Honeymooners remain so appealing? 'I have two answers, and they're very simple,' says Gleason ... 'First, they...