Word: used
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartboard must conclude that Wikler's water-based metaphors failed while Burton's visibility analogy succeeded. Burton's use of tenor and vehicle should be recognized and applauded by our community. However, it must be recognized that Wikler is a first-year, and with a little help from Expos, his use of contrived metaphors will doubtlessly improve...
...approximately 25-30 different vocalizations. Within this repertoire, they have one call for aerial predators and one for ground predators. They also have food calls, and scientists have discovered that these vocalizations function like our words--they refer to objects and events in the external environment. Chickens can even use these calls in a deceptive fashion. Hardly little robots with feathers...
...feel and think. What the students in the Phoenix club have done is inexcusable. Not only do they have no right to treat chickens with such horrible care, they have no right to treat any animal in such unthoughtful and uncaring ways. There are complicated issues associated with the use of animals for research, a topic that I am intimately familiar with. But a case such as this is unambiguous. It should never have started and should stop immediately. One hopes that these students will feel remorse concerning their pathetic treatment of a creature that shares this planet with...
...minimalist set contributes to Machinal's ambiguity. The space in the Loeb Ex space is incredibly intimate and close to the audience, yet the careful use of grays and silvers by Glenn Reisch '00 creates a sense of sterility. Hanging from the ceiling are square, metal mobiles with twisted coils, contributing to the sensation that human feeling can only be repressed for so long, just as the metal coils may snap at any time. Throughout the show, the set remains a reconfiguration of five sliver boxes reminiscent of the inside of a combustion engine, a few gray and silver wood...
...repertoire. And, although the duo hated each other towards the end of their career, they created, in Pinafore, an impossibly polite world where every character knows his or her place, but attempts to change it; courtesy and harmony abound; and of course, no one ever dares to "use a big, big D." Well, hardly ever...