Word: tundras
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...Soviets used forced labor to build up their infrastructure. From 1918 to 1956, between 15 million and 30 million people are estimated to have died from exhaustion, illness and malnutrition after toiling in the notorious Soviet gulag in 14-hour days felling trees, digging in the frigid Siberian tundra or mining coal. Often the labor was as fruitless as the punishments devised by the British. In the early 1930s, more than 100,000 prisoners toiled to construct a canal between the White and Baltic seas - which turned out to be too narrow and shallow to service most vessels...
After the vast tundra of his last book, Against the Day, which was a thousand-plus pages, with more than a hundred or so scurrying characters and a shape-shifting plot that went everywhere and nowhere, Thomas Pynchon has decided to give his fan base a break. His seventh novel is practically beach reading. Inherent Vice (Penguin Press; 369 pages) is a comic-noir detective tale set in Los Angeles around 1970, not long after the Manson murders added their special note to the already twitchy local vibe...
...maker of the Prius? Sales of the new 2010 Prius got off to a strong start in June, according to Toyota, as consumers bought more than 13,000 units. But it's the sales of Toyota's other vehicles, such as its full-size pickup truck, the Tundra, and its hip little Scion that have borne the brunt of Toyota's sales slump. The company hopes to stem the decline by beefing up sales of its small utility vehicle, the RAV4, its Sienna minivan and the Camry sedan. Toyota executives have also raised incentives and are trusting that rising...
...Matthew McConaughey is the alpha male, Ferrell is the omega. His chest is large, white and flabby, and it's pocked with what look like dozens of tiny, imperfectly attached hair-implant tufts. It might be a helicopter's eye view of merino sheep stranded on a tundra. And that's what makes this preening so funny: his character's cluelessness to (and Ferrell's awareness of) the limits of his erotic appeal...
...şblicoAdams House Pool Theatre 8 p.m.The Harvard Crimson Dance Team in ConcertHarvard Dance Center9 p.m.The MatriarchsHarvard Hillel 9 p.m.Andaaz: South Asian Fashion Show, Lowell House Dining Hall Sunday May 311 a.m.Sunken Garden Children’s TheaterSunken Garden12 p.m.BandFest 2009Holyoke Center12 p.m.“Tundra as Song” Film ScreeningCarpenter Center12 p.m.Sunken Garden Children’s TheaterSunken Garden12 p.m.ARTS FIRST Band FestHolyoke Center1 p.m.“Terrace of the Sea” Film ScreeningCarpenter Center1 p.m.Lowell House Bells ConcertLowell House1 p.m.HArt presents: Art WalkVarious Locations2 p.m.The Tragedy of Hamlet: The Prince of DenmarkNew College Theatre2...