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...When actual storm clouds loom on the horizon--terrorism, recession, government scandal--people long for a tempest in a teapot. That's just what the skating brouhaha provided, and it's what the Games provide as a whole. The fog of war, which we hear so much about these days, doesn't apply on the men's downhill course or the bobsled track. The distances of Olympic events are fixed. Five hundred meters. A thousand. No more, no fewer. The times are measured to the hundredth of a second by instruments that don't waver. No messy relativism...
...protests remained peaceful, aside from a brief disruption caused by a passerby who mistook the dramatization for an actual hold-up. The man ran into the intersection and punched one of the protestors who was dressed as an Israeli soldier...
Absent are the romanticized, photographic series of rundown tenements and lost-looking individuals—normally designed to extract our pity, our sentimentality, our condescension. Actual images of impoverished populations are as scarce as the homes they need...
...Pizza and Subs. 74 Winthrop St. Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Pinocchio’s, known affectionately as Noch’s by many Harvard regulars, offers a wide array of pizza dishes that please the most picky of palates. The actual dining space is not much larger than many common rooms, but patrons of this late-night spot are not usually coming in for a sit-down meal. The thick-crusted Sicilian slices ($2.20) are the most commonly requested items, but tasty Italian sandwiches and salads are also available...
...hostile to Hollywood. Numerous scenes from Love Story, the hokey 1970 film starring Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neal, take place right in Harvard Yard. The movie strove to portray an aristocratic Harvard but was filmed in the midst of peace movements and student protests, so actual students had to remain in their dorm rooms while costumed extras walked through the Yard...