Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once a student group has reserved Sanders for a performance, a difficult process in itself, it must deal with the rapacious policies of Harvard Real Estate (HRE), which rents performance space to student groups at very high rates. For an a capella concert, a one-night affair, it is affordable to rent Sanders, since the unique atmosphere justifies the large expense. However, renting Sanders for a play or concert is impratical, for over the course of a several-night run, there is very little hope of breaking even. It is a shame that a space with as much history...
...game was a first-line affair as juniors Jen Minkus and Ginny Simonds each recorded hat tricks and freshman linemate Joey Alissi chalked up four assists. Freshman Emily Buxton registered Harvard's final goal...
...fraternal twin to Sky in the Bertolucci canon is Last Tango in Paris, his taboo-trashing melodrama about a displaced American (Marlon Brando) who provokes a torrid, cloistered affair with a young Frenchwoman. But the new movie is not about sex -- or even, Bertolucci says, "the impossibility of love. It is about the impossibility of being happy within love. Kit and Port don't realize that the modern couple is an endangered species. Couples are so attacked by the outside world that they create a kind of fusion, a symbiosis. And that takes them, eventually, to a crisis. They look...
...Because there are a lot of Asian-Americans here at Harvard, it is profoundly important to educate," said David K. Shim '91, co-president of Harvard-Radcliffe Asian-American Association (H-RAAA), the largest Asian-American group on campus and the affair's principal organizer...
POSSESSION: A ROMANCE by A.S. Byatt (Random House; $22.95). Two young British scholars, one male, one female, investigate a possible affair between two long-gone Victorian poets. This novel, which has already won two major international fiction prizes, proves that a serious, intricate book can also be a page turner...