Word: classics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore goaltender Oliver Jonas played three magnificent games filling in for Prestifilippo, nearly pulling off an alltime classic Harvard playoff performance...
...stolen airline tickets. According to the INS, stolen tickets are part of a package deal, including phony IDs and Social Security cards, that smugglers provide to their clients. And for one person, Barbara Pisa, that news was vindication of sorts. For three years, ever since her Classic Travel Agency in Naperville, Ill., was one of 28 agencies in the suburbs west of Chicago hit by what police describe as a Colombian burglary ring, Pisa has waged a one-woman crusade to focus attention on what she and others say is a serious public-safety issue that the airlines have ignored...
...play legendary games for long-dead consoles like the Commodore 64 or Atari 2600. Like so much of late-'90s culture, the emulator scene became cool by being retro. Nick Vigier, 19, a computer-science major at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., last summer found and downloaded a classic version of Frogger and an Atari emulator. Sounding like a member of a previous generation who collected Pez dispensers, he explains, "You can relive your childhood...
...size contestant on a TV game show called Juvenile Jury) and grew up to be the pre-eminent musical-theater star of our day, Bernadette Peters had never seen Annie Get Your Gun. So when she was offered the starring role in a revival of Irving Berlin's 1946 classic, she was not interested in nostalgia. "I don't think a show should be a walk down memory lane--that's why I've avoided revivals," she says. "I believe a show should happen in front of you for the first time...
...celebrities--the Alcotts (1845-48), before they moved to Orchard House; Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852-53 and 1860-64), who gave the house its current name and added the Italianate tower topped with a "sky-parlour"; and Harriett Lothrop (1883-1924), who under the pen name Margaret Sidney wrote the classic Five Little Peppers books...