Word: alongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...register during the entire transaction. I have encountered another type of rudeness at this establishment, but one not endemic to restaurants--that of the flip statement inclined to make you feel more comfortable, but which only ends up turning you off. I have often walked in there wearing, along with several others, a tuxedo, to which I always receive the question, asked with a smirk, "Hey, what are you celebrating?" I am tempted, by this point, to answer, "An employee who does his job--now make my burrito...
...were rude, is just too much. I swear, I could have strangled her right then and th--never mind. As you can see, the rudeness is still hovering about me, so you'd best try to avoid me for the next couple of days, particularly if I'm speeding along on the sidewalk. Just don't call me stupid...
...Soon after, in the only dominant sing-along moment of the entire concert, the crowd chanted the refrain to "Lazy Boy Dash": "Son, you better get up/You better get up while you can." The crowd certainly did get up for the rest of the set, and the band's final song, the angst-ridden mid-'90s hit "High" which spawned some friendly, energetic shoving. The Paradise was finally rocking...
...Although the crowd was made up predominantly of Our Lady Peace fans, most showed little involvement in the show other than singing along. The band's performance of "Superman's Dead" was half-hearted, demonstrating little of the surging, brooding spark that made the single so popular in 1997. Guitarist Mike Turner, equipped with gigantic headphones, wasted more time trying to look like he was playing amazing riffs than actually sounding good...
This stalwart cooperative gallery, founded in 1974, shows the work of its members along with the occasional outsider. While some of the members work in sculpture, photography and digital imagery, painting is dominant, representational, abstract expressionist and in-between. I think of art-teacher art and art-student art as the two basic varieties of middling art; much of the art here has the sluggish, hard-earned competence of the art teacher. Bromfield is not to be sniffed at, however; Dale Kaplan's recent exhibition of paintings on Mexican chewing-gum boxes was very enjoyable...