Word: windows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still remember the first time my parents and I drove into Harvard Square. Multitudes of teenagers hung outside of the T-stop, smoking, talking and making comments as people walked by. Studying them from the car window, I was sure they fore-shadowed the excitement of Cambridge...
...couple minutes later, I looked out the window and heard the guy say something funny like 'My name is Cool Hand Luke,'" Nettune said...
...next metamorphosis is already beginning. Haitians and Americans are rushing preparations for Aristide's arrival. Volunteers are working to repair the President's white, two-story residence, which police had stripped and looted even of window frames after he fled the country. In the capital, the presidential palace is also in bad shape, but no restoration work can be scheduled until the de facto president, Emile Jonassaint, is pushed out -- possibly this week. Haitians say he is booby-trapping the palace with voodoo charms to thwart Aristide...
...that Robert Frank is among the most important living photographers is a statement so at odds with his rough-edged accomplishment that it obscures its own point. Frank is the genius of the marginal and the unofficial. The nondescript corner of some ratty diner in South Carolina, the smudged window that opens onto the dreariest rooftops in Butte, Montana, the vacant stare of an elevator operator in Miami Beach -- these are things the Swiss-born Frank decided were central to comprehending his adopted nation. Important is a funny word to attach to a man so suspicious of whatever is well...
They knew He would come. I did not. Just a few minutes earlier, I had strolled from my car to the courtyard, when a red Porsche whisked by me. I thought that I recognized the hand-some chiselled face staring out of the open passenger window, hair tousled by the wind. It reminded me of my neighbor's retriever and how it loved being driven around with its head out the window...