Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quincy Center, last red line stop. Four or five blocks from the station I came to the Oyster House, fine food and drink. In the dimly-lit bar a dozen customers were enjoying the fine drink. No one ate oysters...
Walking past the small groups engaged in hushed conversations, right by the crowd flowing into the Last Picture Show, a young man strides on through the wide corridors of the Science Center heading toward the flourescent gleam of a small room in the distance. He enters the computer room, eyes the other students and drops into a seat in front of a large white terminal. He types his name and secret password, watches the grey screen come alive with responses, and settles down to work. "I don't usually come in here on Saturday night," he explains, nervous because...
Three students lean over the center table where Nat Howard is writing his AM 110 assignment. The talk turns to Star Trek, the computer game often played to relieve the drudgery of long homework assignments. "Star Trek is pure escape," says one envious thesis writer...
...gathering up their notebooks and leaving. Silence pervades the room now. Only the light tapping of fingers on the terminal keys and the hum of a fan can be heard. There are five people still working at midnight, three of them are undergrads. A student sits at the center table screwing up his face and dragging his hand through his hair repeatedly while figuring out a problem in his notebook. A woman jiggles her foot, causing her stool to squeak in rhythm...
...hallways of the Science Center are cold and darkened. The security guard, reading at his desk, is interrupted by a hand-holding couple searching for a bathroom. There is a light on in the director's office where a man sits with his coat on, tapping away at a computer terminal. In the cafeteria a radio speaker has been playing classical music all night to an empty room. At midnight the music yields to a recording of two comedians performing live. They're telling jokes and singing folk songs in a thick Yiddish accent. Applause and laughter echo from...