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...tour on that day, Feb. 7, 1964 - the most momentous British invasion, if you believed the hype, since the War of 1812. And the point was not to make intimate contact with the Fab Four themselves - at that point, it would've been easier to line up a chat with the Pope, or even J.D. Salinger - but to enjoy the excitement, the crowds, the hysterical adolescent girls, the sheer exuberant fun that surrounded them. The Beatles certainly enjoyed it all. Ducking into limousines, waving to screeching fans across police barricades, fielding silly questions at press conferences, they mugged and clowned...
...that the buzzword at my roommate’s pre-orientation program was “heteronormativity,” you’ll surely realize that the step to phallogocentrism and Hindi/Urdu is not arduous. After four years in Cambridge we are ready to engage absolutely anyone in chat. We’ll call some abstrusity our specialty, and thanks to the Core, the rest will be covered...
...students chat during down time as if they were sitting over Sunday waffles in a dining hall rather than clutching staple-gunned campaign materials in the cold before the start of the work week...
...Though his tenure as host of The Tonight Show lasted only five years, from 1957 to '62, the former disc jockey and B-movie actor made late-night TV both a habit and an event. He was a hot wire in a cool medium. Many a coffee-break chat would begin with "Did you see what Paar did last night?" He visited Cuba to talk to Castro, and Berlin when the Wall went up; he drew fresh notions from politicians and film idols when such figures were not ubiquitous TV presences. More often, Paar made news by being himself...
Gonzalez got his copy of The Hulk from a buddy who worked at an ad firm that had received an early work print. He didn't have much interest in the movie, but he knew that if he put it online, the more-exclusive chat groups would let him pull down other, better films. "I don't like paying for movies," he says. So he digitized the VHS copy and then used basic editing software to block the "Property of Universal" crawl running across the screen, along with a serial number. Aware that what he was doing was wrong...