Word: subway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buried in our books and automobiles and classrooms and subway cars, we miss a genuine natural wonder. Especially for college students who come to New England from other regions with less colorful autumn seasons, the fall here is something to behold...
...forget her gauzy white skirt billowing over a subway-grating updraft in The Seven Year Itch? Alas, New York police confirmed the outfit is missing and presumed stolen from a Manhattan warehouse. Also gone: some letters written by the actress to her acting coach, Lee Strasberg...
...rode the subway home that day, feeling rather queasy, imagining headlines of my own making. I almost kissed that recommendation goodbye. But then I thought, what if I was Mr. Smith? Regardless of whether or not I agreed with the senator's position, I'd at least expect a respectful reply from my elected representative. Now before you roll your eyes and start calling me a sap, hear...
...passengers' first amendment rights by manipulating them as a "captive audience" to watch advertisements, according to Wendy Hamer, one of the group's organizers. The 12-person group also objects to the collaboration of a state agency and Metrovision of North America, a cable company which provides programming for subway televisions around the country...
...Dune and the universe of Star Trek. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have built a MUD model of their famous Media Lab, with offices and corridors corresponding to the real thing. One intrepid group of computer users constructed a section of the London Underground, complete with a virtual subway. MUDs come and go, drifting in and out of favor, but the current count is estimated at 300 worldwide, most of them accessible through the vast global computer grid called the Internet...