Word: basements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 15, three-year-old Jacob Smith left the side of his mother, who had traveled from New York to act in an American Repertory Theatre production. The pair were descending a staircase leading from the main lobby to the basement of the 25 year-old Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The toddler ducked between a nearly three-foot-wide gap in the stair railing and fell one story to the concrete floor...
Logue remembers the performance as exemplary of the local alternative music world, which he describes as "indigenous and original." His first contact with this genre of music occurred in the basement of an apartment building in Central Square. Performing in the band members' home gave the show an authentic personal quality lacking in stadium rock shows. It emphasized audience participation, instead of isolating rock star from fan. Bullet LaVolta's performance in Adams House had much the same effect, Logue recalls...
...Iran-Contra affair began with a sense that the fundamental precepts of the Constitution were under attack. The government appeared to be run out of the basement of the White House, covertly and with no acountability to anyone. American history dictates that such a major betrayal of public trust would be corrected--like the Watergate impeachment proceedings. After at this is a government by, for, and of the people...
...four dogs and some goldfish are among the co-op's pets today. Three iguanas, fed on lettuce and Alpo, inhabited the basement for a while, and somebody had an alligator named Miles, which ate cockroaches. The cockroach population is legendary. One alumnus told of an entymologist from the Museum of Comparative Zoology who once visited the house because it had the rare distinction of harboring three different species of cockroaches...
Forget Filene's Basement, forget Loehmann's. The ultimate in off-price shopping last week was to be found in Peachland, N.C. There, under the open sky, lay some 120 tons of used clothing at a price buyers could not refuse: free...