Word: understood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have never understood the phenomenon of head banging until now--the almost silly loudness of "Kid" and "It's Not the Heat, It's the Humanity" certainly made me want to bang my head against the CD player, over and over and, yes, over again. But after a few repeats, the catchy beat starts to conquer your feet, then works it way through your hips and soon you'll be crashing your head with the best of them...
...have never understood the phenomenon of head banging until now--the almost silly loudness of "Kid" and "It's Not the Heat, It's the Humanity" certainly made me want to bang my head against the CD player, over and over and, yes, over again. But after a few repeats, the catchy beat starts to conquer your feet, then works it way through your hips and soon you'll be crashing your head with the best of them...
...politician, a screenwriter or a columnist to manipulate the poet's words for her own purposes. But the genius of Shakespeare lies not just in the elegance of his language but also in his sympathetic understanding of human nature and his psychological depth, all of which are best understood in whole sonnets, whole scenes and entire plays. So tomorrow (and tomorrow and tomorrow), pick up a copy of The Riverside Shakespeare, and read as you like it. Susannah B. Tobin '00 is a classics concentrator in Lowell House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...really dislike the culture of secrecy andconfidentiality this past year," Dunn said, thoughconceding that she understood the rationale forthe closed-door talks. "It's really been very hardto work with...
...ideal of humane efficiency, understood as social responsibility, undergirds all of Foster's work. No living architect has thought more closely about the ecological effects of his buildings. In his brilliant 1991 design for Frankfurt's Commerzbank, the tallest office building in Europe, he brought off the seemingly impossible feat of building a supertower that could use natural ventilation (as against fuel-gobbling air conditioning) during 60% of the year. "Anything that reduces energy consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gases is good news," he says. In his redesign of the Reichstag, the seat of German government in Berlin, Foster...