Word: rectangular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...user I know was so mesmerized by the Win '95 conspiracy that he became incoherent when the package arrived in the mail. He rushed into a computer science lecture--taught by a noted Microsoft wannabe, I mean, hater--with his eyes ablaze in anticipation. While he opened the simple, rectangular box and pulled out the documentation set, a series of ramblings that I couldn't make sense of--it was something like onlytwomeg, Ihaveonlytwomeg--fell from his lips. He hurried off with a pained look, on a beeline to the local computer store, I think...
...Since the sunny Monday fell before a Tuesday holiday celebrating the first day of spring, the Hibiya train was less crowded than usual; the masked man easily found a seat and, according to a witness quoted anonymously in the Tokyo papers, almost immediately began fiddling with a foot-long rectangular object wrapped in newspapers. At the next stop he set the package on the floor and strode briskly from the train. By then, says a witness, a moist spot had appeared on the wrapping...
...Bartholomew's congregation--usually between 150 to 180 people, "depending on the weather"--reflects the diversity of Cambridge's Area Four, a rectangular-shaped neighborhood nestled between Central and Kendall Squares...
...reaches into the milk crate and heaves out a rectangular object made of yellow metal. Mom hauls out another one. She and Dad begin lining them up on the counter, like King and Queen Midas unloading a carton of Twinkies...
...blue, crystallize the value of Cultures and Contexts. They are presented on white walls without the helpful explanations, without accompanying cultural artifacts, yet carry themselves with the solitary dignity of true masterpieces. There is a rising debate in American museums about the validity of hanging art on flat rectangular white walls. Yet these walls, after the chaos of the rest of the exhibit, establish a connection between art and viewer which is difficult to dispute...