Word: bons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scary. You didn't need to be a tattooed 16-year-old with long, stringy hair living in central New Jersey to like them. These songs were loud but not threatening, performed by bands with names like Journey, not Megadeth. They were about finding love, mending relationships and, in Bon Jovi's words, keeping the faith. Most importantly, you'd see them on the charts and hear them on Top 40 radio. For a short time, this convergence of pop and metal was America's music...
...administration had created a space where students could, in the words of Knowles, "graze, rather than dine." And no wonder students didn't visit Loker once the $50 bribe ran out--if we wanted to graze or sit on unpadded chairs, Au Bon Plain is more centrally-located and serves better food at comparable prices. (You see, Catherine B. Loker made a mistake the Major had not; she trusted the administration to oversee the design and construction of a space for students...
...Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Using court records, newspaper accounts, diaries and other historical documents, writer-director Moises Kaufman re-creates the courtroom battles that destroyed the career (and ultimately the life) of the late-Victorian playwright, wit and homosexual bon vivant. The cleverly stylized history lesson, playing off-Broadway and in San Francisco, is also a poignant study of an artist brought down as much by his own hubris as an intolerant society...
John Nehme, an employee at the C'est Bon cafe within the Center, said the eatery had "problems when we first moved in," but that he has not seen any evidence of a resurgence...
...Aibel is right to lament the state of "puny, bland, generic" bagels at Harvard (column, Dec. 3). He would be glad to know, however, that the bagels at C'est Bon on Mass. Ave. are surprisingly warm, fluffy and flavorful. In fact, they sometimes almost pass for the real New York thing. But at the end of the day, the price of a real bagel is 85 cents plus round trip fare on the Delta Shuttle to New York. Not a bad deal--you get a free copy of "Foreign Affairs" on the flight. --Benjamin Lebwohl...