Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After inviting me into his domain, Kedlaya drops onto the cushion of his wooden chair, casually draping his arm around the chair. He is barefoot, wearing a T-shirt and jeans. A pair of large round dark-rimmed glasses sits on his face, right below the broad expanse of his forehead. Short curly dark hair hugs tightly to his bulbous head. The quintessential mathematician...
...white shirt with an oversized "Class of '96" in crimson lettering. With my class year emblazoned on the front, this T-shirt contributed even more to my feeling of belonging at Harvard. That night, several hundred of my classmates and I added the '96 T-shirt to our wooden dressers...
That was five years ago. There were flaws in the geometry; a wooden scaffolding caught fire; confidence in a money-raising public offering collapsed. Stupak had to sell all but 17% of his ownership, and the project was taken over by the Minnesota-based Grand Casinos firm. Locals dubbed the enterprise the Stupak Stump and the Tower of Bobel. But say this about the Stratosphere: the man did it. In time it may fly or fall; today it is the instant dominant Vegas symbol. The Stratosphere could be Stupak's Tinker Toy gift to the gaming industry, or it could...
...times, a pair of glasses or a raincoat serves as the only distinction between two completely different characters.) Lingering meathooks from the set of the Hasty Pudding Theater's other ongoing production, "Slaughter City," glower alarmingly over the stage, while "California Seagull's" only set consists of a low wooden platform which serves alternately as a stage, a dock, a bed and a desk. All this minimalism suggests an appeal to raw drama, a going back to basics--even a reinvention of drama a la Konstantin...
Elsewhere on campus there was more traditional fare. In front of the steps from Memorial Church, on a small wooden platform surrounded with leaf-covered microphones, the Hyperion Shakespeare Company made their debut with a production of "Much Ado About Nothing...