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This subterranean enclave serves cappuccino, gazpacho and flan to black-clad clientele. The tres chic and bohemian alike ponder over Nabakov until one in the morning, long after Lamont has gone to bed. The quieter hours during the day are more conducive to studying, perhaps on the outside patio, but conversation overheard at Pamplona is always temptingly distracting...
...Friends" cut, though, has been a source of many traumas. Justine Yang '98 recalls how a chic Newbury Street salon sheared her luscious locks. "Sophomore year, when the Jennifer Aniston cut was popular, I got my hair cut like that," she confesses. "I looked like a boy. I almost cried. My aunt said I looked like a weed." Eventually, though, her roommate Lana Lee '98 suggested that they go to Leonard Stephen in the Square. "Now I'm happy," Yang says of her layered bob. "I get it cut like every 6 weeks. I like my hair to be nice...
Dessert proved imperative, in spite of embarrassingly inflated waistbands and popped buttons. Amidst the traditional Key Lime Pie and Pecan Pie came the pernicious, though probably delicious, gesture towards chic--Praline Parfait and Flan. The Pecan Pie is served (naturally) piping hot, graced by silky, homemade vanilla ice cream so light it was almost ice milk. It was perfect. The Key Lime Pie was typically tart and sweet, graham crackery crust with sour flecks of lime rind...
...that at the time I didn't quite know what a prostitute was, but I did know how they were portrayed. They were heroic: beautiful, sexy, rich and independent. They were women on the move, and I wanted to be just like them. At a time when earth-mother chic was just beginning its resurgence, I wanted elegance. My friends begged their parents for Birkenstocks, while secretly I hoped for red stiletto heels. I practised smoking everything from carrot sticks to toothpicks, hoping to find just the right nonchalant gesture to send a curl of imaginary smoke up past...
...Lace" or "Boogie Nights" theme party, one can find cheap (around $30 to 40) vinyl-looking jackets to pair with tight rayon shirts. Bomber jackets and motorcycle styles hover in the middle price range, selling for approximately $100. `Black and Blues' rescues the more fashion-conscious client with two chic coats from Kenneth Cole's 'Reaction' line, $255 and $275 respectively. But leather isn't just for jackets anymore--a wild leopard-print zipfront leather dress hanging behind the cash register is quick to catch...