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...times I laughed and yelled and partied during that year, but I can count those quiet moments on one hand. They provided something to hold onto--just as Dana and Erin had given me their friendship to hold onto--as classes and meetings and sections and rehearsals seemed to swirl around...
...been 14 Plympton (The Crimson), for still others, it has been the Grille. For me, it has been the company of my blockmates. But once you find a space (whether imagined or physical) in which you feel comfortable, you'll be even more ready to take on the swirl of activities, parties, late nights and learning experiences (such as writing a paper in the four hours before it is due, not a learning experience I recommend) that your first year should be. My first year was nothing like the one I predicted through my logical expectations, but the year...
...moon is mute. And the magnificent swirl of the cosmos simply marks time: it cannot tell us of history, cannot instruct us on what to remember, what to proscribe, what to avoid. Memory is born of biological time, and it is borne on blood and bone and phlegm. Can the stars shudder at sacrifice? Only humankind can grasp the need for heroism amid the persistence of warfare simply by noticing that virtually across the street from the bronze soldiers, who fought a war spawned in the Balkans, is Yugoslavia's mission to the U.N. And only we can repent...
...where she combines her interest in the rest of the structure, color and water effects and manipulation of scale. At a break in the automated walkway, she has a school of fish emerging as if from a cave, growing larger as they move away while turquoise currents of water swirl around them...
...cover charge of seven dollars each; we take small, red tickets and ascend the staircase to the top Kong. "I gave him a 20 and he gave me back 13!" she whispers to me. We come upon a dance club pulsing to hip-hop beats; disco lights flash and swirl spastically. In the corner above the packed dance floor stands the deejay booth ornamented by two gilt Chinese dragons. The mythical beasts seem to stare at us knowingly, disapproving of such trespass. Suddenly, my friend turns to me and shouts above the music, "Where's my sweater...