Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hwang ’08 experienced the first snow of the school year inside a massive, colorful cube. As snowflakes softly descended upon students marching innocently through Harvard Yard, Hwang and a group of upperclassmen were sheltered by a 9.5-by-9.5-foot wooden box they had worked all day to build...
...more than a dozen people who routinely slip between China and North Korea, Hoeryong, which is located on the Chinese border in the north of the country, boasts a central market that teems with consumer goods: sacks of rice and corn, boxes of apples, bananas and tangerines. On wooden tables under makeshift awnings, merchants peddle not just pork and fish but also Japanese televisions and VCRs, South Korean cosmetics, fashionable sportswear from China and illegal sex videotapes from western countries. If you know whom to talk to, you can even purchase a home, an outrageous capitalist sin in a country...
...with the perfect self-conscious and defensive quality of someone being put up on display. Conversely, Martin Henderson, who plays Will Darcy, looks startlingly like Christian Bale’s Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, giving the character just the right sense of a healthy, wealthy, pampered and somewhat wooden American playboy...
...inconspicuous in leopard print. And that’s just the sheets: As a sophomore, Mann constructed a loft, ladder, and queen-sized bed frame from scratch to give him and his roommate more space. Eventually, the ladder thing got old. Today, his room in Claverly features the same wooden bed frame—now sawed in half so that it sits on the floor. He’s added an air mattress to go along with the leopard print sheets, which were, he admits, a gift from his mother...
...good start would be taking a hard look at the root of the problem. From the wealth of swipe-card data it collects daily, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) wouldn’t be too hard pressed to discover why first-years are deserting Annenberg’s warm wooden confines for a long, cold walk to the River Houses...