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...more satirical Oliver Beene acknowledges that the '60s were not all cheap catharsis and the Mashed Potato. Whereas American Dreams' touchstone is Bandstand, Beene's is Lenny Bruce, who is the idol of the 11-year-old protagonist (Grant Rossenmeyer). The pilot finds the family hunkering in a basement bomb shelter during the Cuban missile crisis, with the parents squabbling over who will dispose of any bodies they find outside. ("It's always me!" Mom grouses. "Doing the dishes, washing the windows, burying the dead!") "I think any warm and fuzzy image of the past is wrong," says creator Howard...
...building better represents the plight of student groups than the tug of war in Thayer Hall basement between the Harvard Foundation for Race and Intercultural Relations and the International Relations Council (IRC) last year...
Other groups inhabiting Thayer basement are not living any more luxuriously than the Foundation—and have had to do just as much shuffling. Demon, a quarterly humor magazine, was forced to move out of the office it shared with the conservative journal the Salient into that of the liberal Perspective...
That people can make each other nuts--and sometimes seriously, violently nuts--is not a new discovery. My grandmother knew it, and my grandpa too, which is why he kept his power tools in the basement. Still, scientific protocol demands that whenever doctors set out to repackage a perennial human sorrow as a modern, billable disease, they have to act as if they are on to something big. How else could chronic sleepiness have become Primary Hypersomnia...
...Jordan basement was the site of many a late-night—and pre-dinner—beer pong tournament and several kick-ass parties. My senior year spent in Jordan was truly the best time of my life and I was saddened to learn of its renovation...