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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the obscure locations, the Rear Window is well worth checking out. For one night, leave your Videosmith card at home, leave the squalor of your own room. Escape from the wretched Golden-Glo bogus butter and crowds of large cinemas, and the safe, seen-them-all-before programming of most repertory moviehouses is just a T ride away. It's not really so far from your front door to the Rear Window...

Author: By Joseph D. Penachio, | Title: Advancing the Rear | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...himself away by appearance or age; rather, the Yardling will make his mistake by confusing Mem Church with Mem Hall (which is a dead ringer for a cathedral anyway, with Michael Sandel as high priest), or reacting with a blank look when someone asks him for his bursar's card, or confusing a gov jock and a crew jock...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: College Colloquialism | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...group crosses Quincy St. and stands in front of the Freshmen Union. "And this is where freshmen eat," Crimson Key's finest continues, "assuming they show the checker their bursar's card. And upstairs is the Expository Writing--'Expos'--office. That building over there is the center for Hist and Lit concentrators, and that one...." She drones...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: College Colloquialism | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...going to major in," Joe Pre-Frosh will be asked this summer. "We don't major, we concentrate," he'll reply kindly. "This special writing major, uh, concentration, they, uh, we have, ex-pos, sounds good, although I think you have to fill out a bursar's card...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: College Colloquialism | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...CARD WAS SIGNED WITH A question mark, but Virginia Brieant found nothing suspicious about the Valentines' Day gift of Golden Godiva candy that had been sent to her Westchester County home. She unwrapped the box and ate four of the chocolates. Then she collapsed...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Drugs And Chocolate | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

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