Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wells looked shaky throughout and struggled to keep his breaking pitches down in the strike zone, but he lasted three innings and allowed only one unearned run before his defense collapsed in the B.C. half of the fourth...
...relationship. In order to finish in time for the screenings of student films at the Carpenter Center (beginning May 7), Ross will spend endless hours cozying up to the Steenbeck, an editing machine whose giant silver spools and clicking knobs recall a technology-gone-bad episode of The Twilight Zone. But unlike many other thesis students who feel painfully committed to their machines, Ross can think of no other place he would rather be. "I can't even remember when I first knew I wanted to make films," says Ross, taking another moment to think back. "Maybe when...
Since the last time the clocks changed, I had been living in my own personal time zone. I had noticed last semester that I was consistently arriving late to classes and meetings. Perhaps I was grossly underestimating the time required to walk from my room to Divinity Avenue. Or maybe I was relying a little too much on the general college observance that lectures do not begin until seven minutes after the hour and stretching that concept to apply to things rather outside it, like catching planes. Or perhaps I was just lazy. Regardless of the cause, however, I quickly...
...when in my room, ensconced in my own time zone, I soon became completely incapable of determining the time at all. Instead of keeping me prompt, the sea of readjusted clocks began to eat away at my life: I had inadvertently created a space where the concept of time itself had been effectively destroyed. Perhaps I could have checked my roommates' clocks, but they were having similar time-related problems that made invading their rooms difficult--one was in the habit of going to bed and waking up early to take seven-hour practice MCATs, while the other slept...
...children have created an elaborate culture of fantasy. The more brilliantly our moviemakers and television makers succeed in their work of the technological and artistic imagination, the more their audiences are transported back into the realm of the child-id that is most hospitable to fantasy--a zone of suspended disbelief wherein all things become possible, including deeds of graphic violence. It is sometimes said that too many television shows and movies are cynically targeted at 12-year-olds. That's not exactly the point: the makers of those shows in effect appropriate the imaginative world of the child because...