Word: books
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Things Are" Mural because "when we moved in to the suite, the word 'DEATH' was scrawled across the wall in gray paint." He painted in his chalk lines to cover the entire wall of Quincy B-11 with Max and a monster arching their backs to the sky. The book was Baer's childhood favorite and his passion for the horned and hairy things shines through his work. Whenever Baer and his friends would hang out in the room last year, "People walking by on the street could be heard saying 'Check out that wall! That's so cool...
...enter the party, sign into the guest book and find ourselves faced with a choice of a jazz quartet in one room or dancing in a green-lit other room. We head into the green-lit room, and Tad informs me that I "better make some friends fast," as he disappears into the crowd. I dance a bit with Team Tag-along and then leave them to meet some authentic MIT frat brothers, whom I approach as "Mambo #5" fills the murky air from the party's fog machine. Eventually I end up in the DJ Room, where the usual...
...Sterling Darling's dorm room might have been ransacked by proletariat rebels who whisked away all remnants of popular culture. The only decorations left in his Currier House single are antique desk ornaments, an English history book, and some pictures. One of them is "a bunch of lawyers, or something" he says. There is also a Texas flag. Sterling, dressed in a button-down shirt tucked always into neatly-pressed khakis, sat under the flag and answered FM's nervous-laughter-inducing questions about haircuts, Colt .45 and the beef MexiMelt...
...Last month, he became an American citizen. Brimming with pride and emotion, he explained the process. "Some people take a class to pass the test, but I just read a book, and then answered some questions. It was easy," he said. The test starts locally and ends nationally. Alberto revisited some of the questions he faced and then answered them, "Who is the governor of Massachussetts? Paul Celucci. Where is the White House? 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Who was Martin Luther King? A civil rights leader. Who freed the slaves? Abraham Lincoln. Easy questions like that." The most difficult part...
...more personal note, Barrios, who is Cuban-American, started a book project for a Cuban library where some of his family members work...