Word: buff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...naked people at Harvard and they're not just posing for a figuredrawing class. "Oh, "you may scoff, "I haven't seen all that many of my classmates naked" (or "nekkid" if you're from the South). All I can say is, they may not show up in the buff to the Omelet Station at Special Dinners, but there are nudists among us and their name is Legion...
...BABES IN THIS CASE do not refer to the buff bodies in the Mather House dining hall but to the dozen or so babies who have recently appeared during meals. This year, due to an overwhelming number of house tutors with young children, Matherites have been growing increasingly accustomed to the pitter-patter of little feet. Three-month-olds are bottle-fed in the dining halls; preschoolers solemnly peruse Mother Goose in Mather's cozy concrete library. It is even said (albeit by shaky sources) that they can be found in the weight room. Is this explosion of fecundity...
...effort to buff up its tarnished campus image, the University police department will appoint several staff liaisons to discuss campus security with students this semester...
...Michael Flanagan (Pantheon; $21). The artist-author carries us back to Old Virginny with a dual-media performance: 38 paintings of bygone railroads and Shenandoah Valley townscapes juxtaposed with a 50-page story about the love affair between Anna, an enigmatic artist, and Russell, a photographer and train buff. The meticulous paintings depict Russell's old photographs, complete with creases and torn edges. The text is the reminiscence of an apocryphal ex-newspaperman whose attempt to reconstruct a forgotten romance resurrects family secrets and American history. This is an original example of Proust's observation that "the memory...
...Priya R. Aiyar '96 gave the most common response: "Because I'm a Quentin Tarantino buff...