Word: plastered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...split the council into two separate groups. The first would be a unelected service organization to work with the administration for student services. There's a reason federal bureaucrats aren't subject to election: competency and political savvy are not necessarily related. No one should have to plaster their name across campus for the opportunity to lower phone rates. And what if elections became competitive, the fervent wish of the supporters of council downsizing? Do we really want to turn away students who have a desire to make Harvard a better place...
...part of any radical political agenda." One wonders whether The Crimson remembersthe offensive onslaught of obscene and anti-religious posters that marked this October's "National Coming Out Day" celebration at Harvard, when coming out was given an undeniably political meaning. Radical gay activists, it seems, can plaster the Yard with profanity and pornography while avoiding a campus outcry--but when conservatives dare to poke gentle fun at this absurd display, we are accused of intolerance and hate-mongering...
...Sega video game. What is interesting about it is its viewers. In each of its daily airings (one for each coast), as many as 25,000 of them will compete simultaneously, online, to post the fastest correct answers in order to win prizes like MP3 players and plaster their names on TV on the high scorers' list...
Rachel Whiteread, for example, is a leading figure among contemporary sculptors. Her plaster and resin casts of the space around domestic objects, whether it be the airy volume of a room or the underside of a humble chair, are eerie, elegant and refined. The exhibition includes a gorgeous gallery of these chair pieces: variously colored blocks shining softly under a skylight like a plot of grave markers. It's a tranquil hymn to loss and absence, evoking the sense of departed souls who once sat among us. Its thoughtfulness is a respite from so much brazen shouting, and like...
After putting in considerable man-hours over the summer establishing the site, the three friends organized an advertising campaign last week, to plaster posters across the campus and drop flyers in door boxes...