Word: coldness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Mapplethorpe of laser-cut male torsos and tulips that loom before you like stage-lit pachyderms. These pictures were not collected by the inebriated stage floozy we used to know and love. They bear the mark of the studious Sir Elton John, a man buying things in the cold light of the morning after. Even the sex here is stately. Don't look for anything hairy or louche. It's mostly neatly muscled male torsos by Horst, Mapplethorpe or Herb Ritts. The models have abs more tightly organized than Elton's old record collection. Their nipples are neat...
...historian (author, notably, of the three-volume "The Age of Roosevelt," about FDR) and activist-courtier. His memoir assembles an all-star cast, with anecdotes and subplots playing through the grand events of the Depression and the New Deal, of World War II and the postwar years when the Cold War set in, and Schlesinger was a leader of the American "NCL" - the valiantly anti-Stalinist, noncommunist left...
...these first weeks in Cambridge, my most important practical learning has come from cold and wet weather veterans who know that a toque is a cold-weather hat and speak fondly of high school "snow days." The closest I ever got were "fire days" and "earthquake days." No kidding...
...assistant deans of freshmen do seem to try to give people from warmer places locals as roommates. My roommate, who hails from Newton, Mass., advises that cold weather is best dealt with by dressing lightly and running from place to place. When it started snowing yesterday, he wore a long-sleeved shirt and a light fleece vest. Being cold in October toughens you up for when it really gets frigid in December, he reasons...
...propose that the College institute a cold-weather orientation program for those of us from snow-challenged parts of the world. First, we would learn how to tell the difference between gloves and mittens. Then, we'd be able to try our hand at scarf wrapping. The final exam would be a trip across the Yard when the first nor'easter hits...