Word: thinning
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...hard to see why the space at the Ex was physically too small, especially for three hours. Nonetheless, the set design by Zak Sung '99 was one of the most impressive parts of the play: a deep, eerily colored stage with a pregnant white veil above and with thin, dry trees at the wings...
...concern for these things, but that they are a means to an end--the end of raising more money. When one considers the facts that Harvard controls more money than some nations, that last year its investment wizards created one billion dollars out of thin air, that it has a moral responsibility to contribute to its local community and, as it likes to boast, "serve mankind," its inability to provide student-run public service programs with the resources they need is shameful...
...realize that the University cannot raise $28 million out of thin air, but it picks and chooses where it spends its money very carefully, and if something is necessary, the money can be found. Therefore, we recommend that the administration put its money where its mouth is, step up to the plate and act before Widener begins selling its books as confetti...
...drove along a thin, wooded road and found the entryway into the ranch: laser-guarded, barbed-wired and accompanied by the anxious grrrrr of concealed attack Dobermans. A good omen--they had something in there worth hiding. A walk around the property's perimeter at first yielded only more of the same. Then we turned a corner and through the trees saw children playing a game of some sort--little houses moved around a board with sticks. The children spotted Lori and me and several of them came over...
...short, she is a disaster waiting to happen when her father re-enters her life, and they become mutually obsessed. The actual affair does not begin until a gloomy courtship by letter, tape and phone call has worn thin. The carnal phase is really an epilogue. Soon the father has shed religion in favor of breeding attack dogs, and the daughter has decamped for New York City to write "a post-modern novel." One hesitates to question the veracity of a book labeled a memoir, but Harrison's overheated prose and her sketchy characters and settings make this more...