Word: thinning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Thin Ice Science Center...
Adrienne Shelly was murdered last November in her New York office. It was one of those stupefyingly banal crimes - the result of an argument with a construction worker - that preoccupy the tabloids and make the rest of us think long, hard and miserably about how thin and how carelessly drawn the line between life and death is. You leave home in the morning thinking about the weather, your dinner plans for the evening, the phone call you really don't want to return - and you don't come home. Ever...
...sibling.Tucked in the small alcove of the gallery are perhaps the two most enthralling photographs in the entire exhibition. Here, “Rural Tibetan kitchen” (1923) and “Tibetan apothecary” (1923) hang side-by-side, forming an informal diptych.In the kitchen, a thin golden streak of light streams diagonally from a window in the top-right corner of the image. A window in the apothecary lets through light in the opposite direction from the top-left corner. Viewed together, the two shafts of light form an inverted pyramid that holds the two photographs...
...habits, and “eco-projects,” was stolen from its perch in the Cabot dining hall by two disguised males at 1:30 a.m., according to eyewitness Adriana L. Benedict ’09. “The guy carrying the Green Cup was tall, thin, blonde and he appeared to be wearing shiny purple leggings,” Benedict said. “His main accomplice was a little shorter with a brown top hat...matching his brown and khaki detective safari getup.” Cabot, which tied with Lowell House for this year?...
Smith's charms, though, quickly wore thin. After making a show of his wealth by feasting Smith with Chesapeake oysters, boiled turkey and baked cornbread, Powhatan got to the point: What the heck was Smith doing on the big man's turf, and how fast would he get out? Why, Smith baldly lied, he and his mates had merely been chased upriver by the wicked Spanish and would soon be gone. Powhatan, who knew better, signaled for a band of sinewy warriors to press Smith's head upon an altar of stone and prepare to beat out his brains with...