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...Allston residents and Harvard in mind and is well placed to make a judgment on this land. Development across the river is vital to the future growth of the University and is currently welcomed by Allston residents who would be thrilled to see their neighborhood thrive. An unpleasant urban wasteland abuts this vital railyard, and Harvard development of the other 44 acres of this 91-acre parcel could clean up the neighborhood while preserving the railyard. Since Barrios also represents a good number of working class voters, he is aware of the hardships another MBTA fare hike would bring...
Lots of people from the feature-film business have tried to create television shows, and the vast majority have failed. Most of them, deep down, thought network television was a wasteland that would be awed by 44-minute versions of their films. But Bruckheimer likes TV. He just wants to make TV that looks better and moves faster. "I don't want my butt to hurt," says Bruckheimer, 57. "I just want to keep the story moving. I try to take the air out, just like in our movies." All three of his shows start at point...
...unlike most native Los Angelinos (who act as though they’re exiled on the East), Dartboard does not stick up for the ray-soaked wasteland and wishes eastcoasters and westcoasters would just get over it. Southern California doesn’t deserve such reverence. It more than makes up for its brilliant weather with disgusting urban sprawl, choking traffic, pollution, aesthetic debauchery and an intellectually stifling “laid back” atmosphere. The city is a huge expanse of strip malls, crumbling homes and apartment buildings that were in bad taste to begin with, crammed freeways...
...silliest excuse: that Harvard is just not a place to date. Harvard students are too busy overachieving, the story goes, and, for most, finding a special lady is just impossible. If you find yourself stuck in the drink-up-and-hook-up lane, college can be a romantic wasteland. The drunk hook-up, after all, is the poster child of poseur romance. Besides all the obvious token emptiness, there’s the worst poseur romance move of them all: that uncomfortable “post-hook-up” thing, where some people just don’t know...
...Iranian side is just as vacant of authority as the Pakistani and Afghan frontiers. But it's also possible that if bin Laden was in the vicinity, he remained in the mountains around Ribat Qila. A five-year drought has emptied the area, and abandoned mud houses litter the wasteland. Sometimes I'd see a 4-by-4 parked outside an isolated house, and my guide would tell me it probably belonged to a smuggler. Who knows? It could easily have been al-Qaeda...