Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also presented a conception of feminine virginity, "virginity in the old sense, like virgin woods that have not been trampled on but are full of all the possibilities of life...
...weather outside is just frightful, which means, of course, that it's time to wax those skis and snowboards (as well as that unsightly back hair). Uprising heralds the coming of the season, promising unknown destinations, first descents and the exploration of virgin terrain. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., showtime at 8 p.m., Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Ave., (near Boston University), (401) 274-0001. Tickets...
...this case, the corporation is Vail Resorts, which operates eight hotels, 82 restaurants and many other businesses in Vail and nearby communities. Just before the fires, the company won a bitter court battle to begin Category III, an Orwellian-sounding ski development on what is now 885 virgin acres of mountain forest. Environmentalists oppose the expansion because they think it will chase away the few remaining lynxes believed to be on the land, one of the species' last known habitats. Workers had begun clearing trees for Category III just days before the fires...
Orgazmo, yet another scandalously juvenile Trey Parker flick, opens tonight. Let Trey molest your virgin eyes as the last action hero in a condom suit. Or not. It's NC-17, by the way. Sorry, cradle robbers, you'll have to leave high-schooly dates from Rindge and Latin at home. Kendall Square Cinema, 494-9800. $7.50 general...
...alms for the building of the Sagrada Famolia. He hated liberalism and was devoted to everything most penitential and reactionary in Spanish Catholicism. He was gloomy, short-fused, arrogant--the Christian virtue of humility was never his forte--and so misogynistic that he never married and probably died a virgin. Of course, such traits have never disqualified anyone from sainthood, and nobody would doubt that Gaudi was in a general way a more saintly character than, say, Frank Lloyd Wright or Philip Johnson. But there is a deeper problem: the absence of miracles, which the Vatican authorities need as "verification...