Word: booting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harp--pronounced "Haahp" by Southie residents--is two floors of big beer drinking, raucous sports watching and crazy dancing fun, with a few brawls to boot. With "only" 10 beers on tap, this is not a bar for the elite micro snob; enjoyment of St. Louis conglomerate alcohol is a prerequisite for entrance. Packed before and after games and all weekend long, Boston's biggest haven of alcoholic consumption fits up to 800 people and still has a line outside...
...Still, the man had the right look about him. The windowpane blazer. Nicely non-bureaucratic." Windowpane Blazer. $225. Too much Bond, I think--a little over the top. So is this, from the same catalog: "Fabiana whistled for the stable boy. He came. She whipped her crop against her boot. 'Saddle my horses.' (Tie-back chiffon blouse. $135.)" Then there is the turtleneck sweater from a "Bohemian aunt...says Dylan Thomas gave it to her at 3 a.m. outside the White Horse Tavern...
...suggests Ken Starr crossed with the late Chris Farley. Pearlman's ambition for his Trans Continental Entertainment and related companies is nothing less than to create a new Motown. O-Town, for Orlando, is the name he has given his sprawling $6 million recording studio that doubles as a boot camp for would-be stars. Here the crushes of tomorrow are groomed by teams of choreographers, vocal coaches, personal trainers, marketers, stylists and p.r. experts. Pearlman's stable includes a young girl group and three more up-and-coming boy groups, including C-Note, a quartet of three cute Hispanic...
STEVEN SPIELBERG His submarine-themed eatery, Dive, turned out to be one, and it had to be given Das Boot...
...truant teachers. While their "behavior is unacceptable," he maintains, "parents are responsible for students many more hours than teachers and have got to do some monitoring of homework." But what happens when such home support is lacking? While their suburban peers return home to parents eager to boot up the computer to help with a research paper, many inner-city students don't have the same resources or have parents who are undereducated or too busy making ends meet to help with homework...