Word: spastic
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...looking for students in their preferred element, though, try the banks of the Charles River, Harvard's most beautiful vista on warm days. But this isn't Stanford--Cambridge weather is spastic, with summery weather in February and snow in April. (It's not always like this, we promise...
...What Pseudo does is not what King does. Pseudo works the fringe, offering up a slew of shows, giving a creative outlet to anyone from a woman having sex on a plane to a naked, one-toothed, 80-year-old man dancing. This stuff--all jerky and spastic in a tiny 3-in. by 3-in. box on your computer screen--makes public-access cable TV look cerebral and slick. But who cares? It's a global talent show, and you never know who's watching out there--or whether, like Winkler, you'll end up being discovered. Harris...
...chaos theory" of physics, with its universe built on bubbling disorder. To put it mildly, these are notions that conventional buildings, with their aura of stability and authority, don't do much to express. But a building that looks as if it's in the grip of a spastic seizure? Well, that's getting there...