Word: window
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter how much the North End may be changing, it retains a certain appealing air of Old World stability. As I walked down the quiet, brick-fronted streets, it seemed as though I was entering a timeless area. In the window of an Italian grocery store a cat lounged indolently, gazing uncuriously at passers-by. Off the main streets, narrow lanes wound out of sight, leading to concealed courtyards fronted by iron gates and hanging plants...
Next door to the Sweetwater, the ZanzibarRestaurant and Tropical Dance Floor was lookingfor people as well, but they were closed, which,to be truthful, was not a disappointment. Down thestreet, a music store window had a sign for dataentry people. I went up three flights of stairsand through two chain-link security doors to betold, "Damn, I asked them to take that sign outlast week." The data entry folk looked nice; theyhad a great view over the Common and a very mellowboss with a mustache and jug ears, who explainedto me that they're the people who rent musicalinstruments...
...student front, Silber arrested and suspended demonstrators as recently as three years ago, when the hapless B.U. eight protested for divestment using the tactics of civil disobedience. In 1986 Silber threatened to expel student Josef Abrahamowitz and three friends who hung a pro-divestment banner out of a dorm window. Abrahamowitz took the case to court and won, arguing that students who hung "Go, Mets" banners out their windows were not met with the same repression. Now, dissatisfied with merely crushing public expression of students' First Amendment rights, Silber is trying to force students to stop having sex and throwing...
Taxi driver Raham Dahalla, eyeing a darkening sky over Khartoum, hesitantly stuck his hand outside his cab window. "No more rain, please," he said. Sure enough, only a few drops fell this time. But even after the floodwaters subside, Sudan's political, economic and religious problems will be serious enough to engulf any government. For the majority of Sudan's 24 million citizens, the forecast is gloomy regardless of the weather...
...follow you into airports and onto airplanes. We are photographers, bending over your mother to snap a picture of you as you sit sullenly by the window of the airplane. Your eyes, Ben, are big and brown and sad. Click. Scream, Ben, it will make for a better picture. Click. Or cry, Ben. Crying will make for the best picture...