Word: vacuumed
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...cartoonish and superfluous gloss on the sardonic opera. Vick, the director of productions for the Glyndebourne Festival, and his all-British production team have set the action in the deprived consumer hell of the Soviet 1950s: Katerina's erotic fantasies, for example, run to materialistic visions of brides wielding vacuum cleaners. $ Symbols of heavy industry like cranes, tractors and forklifts move props (such as Katerina's marital bed) on and off stage, and Katerina's feckless husband is buried in the trunk of a car crushed by a wrecker's ball...
...Vacuum cleaners hummed from Pennypacker to Weld yesterday as first-years prepared for the more than 1000 parents who will occupy the Yard this weekend...
Dorm crew employee Jake R. Murrow '97 said twice as many vacuum cleaners as usual were checked out yesterday. He said he expects even heavier demand for them tomorrow...
...enforce a complete demilitarized zone. A hair-trigger exclusion zone, where every tank and artillery piece that sneaks in constitutes a violation, would allow Saddam to keep U.S. troops busy with cat-and-mouse games or, worse, force them to turn a blind eye. Furthermore, creating a military vacuum below the 32nd parallel could lead to a collapse of Baghdad's authority in the territory and possibly invite an incursion by Iran -- an even less appetizing prospect...
Amid the drama surrounding the junta leader's exit, few remarked on the yawning vacuum of police power he left behind. That absence only deepens the need for American involvement, despite White House protestations that the U.S. ! commitment is limited and temporary. From the Haitian capital to the remotest corners of the countryside, civil authority has melted away. Even with Aristide on the way home, U.S. soldiers were forced to immerse themselves in the minutiae of Haitian daily life...