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...when the game ended just after 2 a.m. in Cambridge, undergraduates of all types--from the avid sports aficionado to the sports illiterate who had only wanted to watch someone from his or her house on television--poured into the streets in celebration. Students hugged and celebrated together. And for one night, the Harvard women's basketball team had united a campus in a fashion more reminiscent of the camaraderie that surrounded the student takeover of University Hall in 1969 than that of the typical Harvard sporting event...
...autographs and talk sotto voce about aliens they have met. He has recorded a spoken-word piece on the movie sound track for The X Files: Fight the Future. But only true believers will catch it--it's 10 minutes and 13 seconds after the last track. As any aficionado knows, Ten Thirteen is the name of Carter's production company; on the TV show, it's also the time frequently shown on clocks, 555-1013 is a common phone number, and October 13 is often the date. (It's Carter's birthday.) In Carter's piece, the text...
...smoky lounge provides an atmosphere reminiscent of an era long gone by. Savor your Macanudo in the upstairs parlor overlooking the rest of the shop. An apt place to muse over Hemingway and O'Neill, its hospitable environment also fosters study breaks for the chessmaster as well as cigar aficionado...
Ahhhh, yes--an evening with the classics. One can envision the sequence of events: the unsuspecting Shakespeare aficionado heads off to the Loeb Ex last weekend to take in a showing of Pericles. This play, being one of the late romances, naturally contains all the elements one might expect from Shakespeare's pen: sea burials, royal courtships, knightly jousting, hired assassins, tempests, poison, whorehouses, incest--incest?--basketball tournaments, stripteases, the electric slide...and, of course, pirates...
...aficionado collapses in a dead faint...