Word: walls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line. I want to run out into the pouring rain half-naked and scream at the sky. I want to stop asking my boss if I can use the bathroom, and take a bus to the Pacific Coast in Mexico. I want to chip away at a wall for 19 years and watch as the final layer cracks and crumbles before my eyes. I want to reference a cinematic epiphany not from the "Shawshank Redemption...
...dorm room. The fluorescence mixed in with the water gleamed under his black lights. Outside, the cold New England ground was wet with gray rain, but inside, warm tropical water splashed down to a rock beach dotted in shells and starfish. Perriello painted fluorescent mermaids on his walls and installed recessed fish tanks behind his homemade wall of water, creating what he calls a "life-sized aquarium." The bamboo shades and the large beach reeds he bought at Mahoney's Garden Center swayed as if the winds of the Bahamas had taken a detour through his room. Friends frequently surfed...
...Quincy, you can see a wild thing and a little boy dancing to the moon. Last year, Dan B. Baer '00 sketched the first chalk lines of this "Where The Wild Things Are" Mural because "when we moved in to the suite, the word 'DEATH' was scrawled across the wall in gray paint." He painted in his chalk lines to cover the entire wall of Quincy B-11 with Max and a monster arching their backs to the sky. The book was Baer's childhood favorite and his passion for the horned and hairy things shines through his work. Whenever...
...These rooms serve as relaxation theme parks, like the fantasy worlds we created for ourselves under our blankets in the corners of first grade playgrounds. These elaborate flowing waterfalls and bunk bed caves are just modern forts, little escapes from the coldness of mass-produced furniture and rationally-distributed wall putty...
...This is our Wall of Fame. We kick ass," Libbares says, pointing to the plaques adorning the wall in the main hallway...