Word: bagels
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Toscanini's, an ice cream shop that opened last week at 1310 Mass. Ave.--the location recently vacated by Ultimate Bagel--was doing brisk business during yesterday's warm weather...
...getting your bagel's worth...
...have a concern about The Crimson's coverage, no matter how small, it is my concern as well. My goal as Reader Representative is to try to make sure every reader can find a bagel's worth of relevant news in the paper--when you read the paper in the morning, there should be enough news that you're interested in, that you're concerned about, that you want to read, to last you through your morning bagel (or Breakfast Sandwich, as the case may be). So if you're finding that you're not getting your bagel's worth...
...puns took on a life of their own. Consider Cal Ipsobeat's confession that as an un-hip Jamaican, he thought dreadlocks (which he sports) was a lousy bagel spread. Or a crew member's observation that the gold C3PO knockoff Mike Rosoft (Geoff Oxnard '99) is Excel-lent. Or Sally Vader's encouragement to Hugh Jegg to "Just keep your sunny side up and maybe this will all go over easy!" Not to mention the endless hard-boiled detective references and Star Wars ripoffs...
...future, or of the technologically advanced past that Lucas imagined. Today we can wallow in the film's sleek retro-kitsch; even the opening logo has acquired the classic blockiness of a '56 DeSoto. One can find endearment in the lame badinage of C-3PO, in Carrie Fisher's bagel-like hairdo, in the whining and bickering of the lead characters, in the varying pronunciations of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the planet Alderaan. The invocation to "trust your feelings" seems a woozy echo of the '67 Summer of Love, not the '77 summer of Wars, but Alec Guinness carries himself...