Word: aficionadoã
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...pleasingly minimalist jacket featuring white letters dissolving into black, “Laura” reproduces on each page of its heavy gray cardstock one of the 125 lined index cards on which Nabokov penciled his story. And each card is perforated along the edges for the ultra-aficionado??who, having exhausted the author’s other collections, can pop out the notes to feverishly arrange and rearrange elements of the plot just as Nabokov himself is said to have done...
...about 50 cents more than a traditional brewed cup of dripped coffee from Starbucks in Harvard Square. “The difference is well worth the price,” Toro said. Doris Donoghue, a registered nurse at University Health Services, who called herself a coffee “aficionado?? but not an expert, said the extra cost for the pressed coffee was well worth it. Some, however, were confused by the proper etiquette for enjoying the more expensive cup. Jarret A. Zafran ’09 asked the barista...
...collection, which totalled about 3,000 vinyl records and CDs. Miller picked up the saxophone at age nine and was playing in New York clubs by high school. At Harvard, you can often find him performing at Hilles Library or the Cambridge Queen’s Head. The jazz aficionado??s journey towards math wasn’t as simple. Miller originally wanted a career as a professional musician, but planned to concentrate in economics to avoid becoming “a broke professional musician.” But an unpleasant experience in Calculus...
...Harris to play the German genius, and though both director and star create much bluster and intensity, neither of them offer the audience much more than empty sound and fury. Apart from the music itself, the story told in the film is blatantly fictitious and will likely offend the aficionado??s sense of history. The role of a twenty-something copyist, played by the lovely Diane Kruger (“Troy”), is a device created by the film’s writers to see into the last days of an increasingly reclusive Beethoven. In a typical...
...version of “Yale Sucks” it is clear that T-shirts with a statement are not just a teenybopper trend. Now, more than ever, people are wearing their opinions on their sleeve, rather than taking the time to speak them.As a shirts-with-cute-sayings aficionado??I possess a vast repertoire of “Everyone Loves A [insert regional, religious, or ethnic trait here] Girl” tops—I often feel the need to defend my fashion choices.Unlike the well-endowed preteens trying to fast forward the aging/mating process with...