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...Hotel. If not for the periodic rumble of the T massaging the feet of restaurant patrons, one could easily forget the cement jungle outside of the door. The interior is romantic and tasteful; even the walls are appetising, liberally dosed with colorful still-lifes of ripened fruit. A giant convex mirror reflects all of the patrons in distorted miniature, spotlit from above by track-lighting...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: hoppin | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...Tucker '96 for Animula Vagula Blandula: A Study in the Use and Formation of the Latin Diminutive"; Jennifer M. Ty '96 for "Is Walking With Two Cheaper to Do? The Energetic Cost of Walking and Running in a Non-Human Biped"; Balint Virag '96 for "Random Walks on Finite Convex Sets of Lattice Points"; Adam K. Webb '96 for "Community, Peasants, and the Shining Path Guerrillas: A Field Study in Ayacucho, Peru"; Geordie Young '96 for "The Distribution of Void Sizes During Structure Formation in the Universe"; and Timothy P. Yu '96 for "Angles of Submission: The Poetics and Politics...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Hoopes Prizes Awarded for Theses | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

Ashbery, whom Vendler credited with having "changed the genre of poetry," shared an anecdote from his art classes at Harvard and then read his "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Heaney Reads For Centennial | 11/4/1995 | See Source »

...minor characters rarely remain in the background. An example is Ron Ritchell, as Walter the Waiter, sporting the imposing convex shirt front and the respectful familiarity of a family butler...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Shaw's World: Party On, George! | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

PETER GABRIEL: SO (Geffen). Convex melodies surround songs that sound like a travel diary of a spiritual netherworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best of '86: Music | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

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