Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While first-years still zip from the Yard to slam late-night coffees at Au Bon Pain and a few upperclass students still hide behind books in Cafe Pamplona, many have noticed the dearth of younger patrons...
THEATER A British satire loses its zip on Broadway...
...Jump Jim Crow," one of the minstrel songs on the album, features a sparse arrangement of guitar and mandolin which complements Shocked's simple vocals. Towards the end of the song, Shocked signs "Zip-a-Dee-Doo Dah" in a soft, shrill voice reminiscent of early 20th century popular music. Moral and political implications of the blackface minstrelsy aside, "Jump Jim Crow" is one of the most successful songs on the album...
...technology -- broadcast history will be made in a meeting room on Capitol Hill this week. A new kind of television signal will leave the Bethesda, Md., TV tower of WETA, a PBS affiliate, fly across downtown Washington, strike an antenna on the roof of the Capitol building and zip down a cable into the Thomas P. O'Neill Room two floors below. There, before an audience of Senators, Congressmen and assorted commissioners, magician Harry Blackstone Jr. will draw back a black cloth and reveal the first image ever to be broadcast in digital high-definition television: a razor-sharp picture...
Lourdes loves the cold. She relishes "the ritual of scarves and gloves, hats and zip-in coat linings. Its layers protect her." Raped by revolutionaries who afterward carved "crimson hieroglyphics" into her soft belly, she wants "no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all." But her Americanized daughter Pilar, born in Cuba when the revolution was 11 days old, misses her abuela: "Every day Cuba fades a little more inside me, my grandmother fades a little more inside me. And there's only my imagination where our history...