Word: tethers
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...outdoor spaces. Step four is the icing on the social space cake: Design. Kayden’s team has planned two design initiatives to help attract visitors to under-utilized spaces. One plan would revamp Currier House’s shuttle stop, adding heated benches, a Tether Ball court, an over-sized chess board, a coffee machine, and building blocks chairs. Kayden hopes the extra comforts will transform the shuttle stop from a cold, unwelcoming stop-over into a fun place to hang out. The second plan is on a much larger scale. A completely transparent glass building could...
...epiphany led to a yearlong project in which Garcetti photographed workers joining and welding steel beams to assemble the curvy, complex framework of Frank Gehry's architecture. Stepping gingerly around the dangerously suspended girders with a 35-mm Nikon but no tether, Garcetti was literally and emotionally unharnessed...
...medium, always does), the record labels, never bastions of original thought, asked for more. Soon rappers who had never got a speeding ticket were referring to themselves as pimps and hustlas, and what had started as ghetto reporting with a touch of caricature metastasized into caricature with no tether to reality. The result was a torrent of albums about the joys of acquisitiveness (bling, if you must), consequence-free violence and compliant women...
...Well, then, this must be monomania of a certain sort. Chess is a particularly enclosed, self-referential activity. It's not just that it lacks the fresh air of sport, but that it lacks connections to the real world outside--a tether to reality enjoyed by the monomaniacal students of other things, say, volcanic ash or the mating habits of the tsetse fly. As Stefan Zweig put it in his classic novella The Royal Game, chess is "thought that leads nowhere, mathematics that add up to nothing, art without an end product, architecture without substance...
...often only by the skin of my teeth, to believe that God is in charge of his world, in spite of all appearances to the contrary, and there are often too many appearances to the contrary. Like any ordinary human being, I also reach the end of my tether. I can only be rescued from that by the fact that so many care around the world and pray for us. But the level of repression and evil in this country is incredible, and the suffering that our people are exposed to is more than I can take. I am amazed...