Word: treks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even branding is tame compared with more extreme bod-mod, ranging from people who have their tongues split to some Star Trek fanatics who have supposedly tried to look like a Klingon. Then there's Erik Sprague, 27, of Albany, N.Y., who has spent the past several years trying to turn himself into a lizard. So far he has had Teflon implants to enlarge his forehead and filed his teeth into fangs, while covering his body with tattoos of reptilian scales...
...Gorgeous. The Last Broadcast, a slick thriller assembled on a desktop computer in 1997 for--get this--$900, mixes interviews and "found footage" in its story of a cable-TV crew that goes into New Jersey's Pine Barrens in search of a legendary monster; the crew calls this trek "the Jersey Devil project." There is betrayal, death and a twisty climactic frisson in this dark, media-mauling parable. The similarities between it and Blair Witch prove that for film, video or digital artists, self-reflexive stories...
...sultry, day in Cambridge. Our trek would take us from Bow St. to Porter Square and back to the Kennedy School...
...sultry, day in Cambridge. Our trek would take us from Bow St. to Porter Square and back to the Kennedy School...
...Graduate Student From Hell (GSFH) sneered at my questions during section. She said my research paper topic suggestions were unacceptable. She reveled in telling me her office hours were at 8 a.m.--in Hilles Library (you'll trek there soon enough, my friend). She "lost" one of my assignments, a political cartoon we had to draw, and later "found" it all crumpled up at the bottom of her briefcase. She said I did not know how to write a midterm essay...