Word: inhabitants
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...understand. "The stock of the Puritans," as the Alma Mater goes. Three hundred and fifty years of history, of people and buildings and dust is a lot to have to deal with. But for all that cumulative experience, Harvard is really only as old as the people who actually inhabit it--they just have the opportunity to listen to the dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made up to look like a place where a person can read--is basically a fear of the past...
...stare too long at that 65% in the polls, I feel as if I inhabit someone else's country. Liberal Democrats felt that way in 1984 after the Reagan landslide. How to get over it? Sometimes rage can be appeased by historical perspective. Maybe not this time. Instructed by Toni Morrison's conceit that Clinton is "our first black President," I compare him to Martin Luther King Jr. King plagiarized parts of his doctoral thesis and was a relentless womanizer. So far, so good. But King was one of the half dozen greatest Americans; he worked with the nation...
...Hamlet, Queen Victoria in the 1997 film Mrs. Brown. She has great swaths of Shakespeare locked in her brain: all of Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream and "probably most of Measure for Measure." So, for British actor Judi Dench, figuring out how to inhabit the role of Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love was no great mystery. "I thought she would be a commanding person," says Dench, who is herself a rather gracious person, and all of 5-ft. 1-in. tall. "I thought that if she just glanced...
...collaboration with the legendary Diana Vreeland at the Costume Institute of the Met. Then in 1986, his notoriety well-established, Doonan was snatched by Barney's New York, where he has graduated from window dresser to creative director. His justification for being is in creating windows which inhabit the realm somewhere "beyond the valley of gorgeousity...
...resident Susan Parrish (Claire Forlani) in a coffee shop. Soon after leaving the shop, he is killed by an out-of-control car (the death is so overwhelmingly violent that you have to laugh). It turns out that Death himself has orchestrated Mr. Pitt's death so he can inhabit the young man's body. He next approaches communications tycoon William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), Susan's father, and convinces him to be his guide on Earth in exchange for a postponed death...