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...going on in their heads, listen to “The Waitress,” which describes the daily routine of a waitress from the perspective of a homeless customer who’s getting maltreated and wants to die and “come back as a cockroach in [her] tin cup.” If nothing else, “The Waitress” shows fans that Slug spends his days empathizing with homeless people looking at waitresses in cafés, while producer Ant is busy conjuring up ways to work flutes beautifully into hip-hop tunes...
...into a fourth-story room of a five-story section of Lowell House (of course, the water first had to make it through the layer of asbestos in the ceiling!); and that smell in Adams dining hall only went away after the floorboards were ripped up and a massive cockroach infestation exterminated. Although these stories sound unique and extreme, CBI is dedicated to developing a stoic quality forged through trials of adversity in each and every Harvard man and woman. The most common program is a room heater that doesn’t work in the winter but kicks...
...while their struggle to make it in the U.S. has the makings of a moving immigrant narrative and meditation on the post-1989 Chinese diaspora, its schematic nature prevents it from being fully realized. The Wus go from sleeping on the linoleum bathroom floor in a slummy, cockroach-infested apartment to full ownership of a lakeside home with a backyard in less than five years; they're forced to deal with the usual petty racism; Taotao's Mandarin, to the dismay of his parents, quickly degenerates, as does his filial piety; the Wus are barraged by a snooty Chinese emigrant...
...poem, he bemoans his distance from his mother: she "sits in front/ of the television every day,/ afloat in a dress too large/ for her body, fanning herself/ with a magazine, feigning contentment." He compares his father, who has refused to accept Wong's sexuality, to a cockroach hiding in a chair. "We are furniture to each other," says Wong. (The two men still don't speak...
...returning students dragged their luggage into their new rooms and started unpacking last week, most received quite a shock. No, Harvard hadn’t renovated their rooms, installed cable television, eradicated chronic cockroach infestations, or emplaced air conditioning/central heating units. (The Allston campus will probably be completed before any of these things happen.) Rather, it was the absence of Harvard’s (in)famous red phones and institutional, mostly lumpy, and sometimes-yellowing pillows...