Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the 1980s Spring Street, like so many other neglected, down-and-dirty streets around the country, is shuddering back to life, becoming a gleaming circa-1920s boulevard. Many of its handsomely scaled old masonry buildings were renovated: derelict art moderne office buildings became cool art moderne apartment buildings, and the art deco stock exchange was reborn as an art deco disco. There were more than two dozen major restorations in all -- including what had been the CRA's office building. The CRA, as it happened, had helped foster this revival. So in 1980 back came the urban-planning bureaucrats...
...Freshman Council has signed up two busloads full of freshmen, leaving for their initiation into the Harvard-Yale mystique tomorrow morning and returning on Sunday. Allen P. Webb '91, who organized the bus trip, said most freshmen are "really psyched for the game. It is cool that the team is going for the Ivy League Championship our freshman year, especially when the team wasn't supposed to have a good season...
...intimidating energy recalls the young Katharine Hepburn but with a voracious libido. And behind them both stands another more portly silhouette: the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock. Dan is the basic Hitchcock protagonist, a fairly decent man in a horribly compromised position. And at first glance, Alex, with her cool allure, seems an avatar of Hitchcock's blond ice goddesses. Only later do we discover she is as lonely and lethal as Mother Bates. But with a difference. In Psycho the woman with the knife was really a man with an Oedipus complex. In Fatal Attraction, Alex holds...
...optimistic, but don't be pessimistic. Caution against fear. Let the country see you as serene. Go to a World Series game and play it fun but cool...
Jeremy C. Miller confronts the anti-Semitism problem by playing the hated Shylock with a measure of dignity. Portrayals of Shylock have a tendency to paint him as a bloodthirsty, raving madman, and while Miller's Shylock is appropriately vengeful and merciless, he also rarely loses his cool. He demands the justice and respect he deserves as a man but is denied because of his religion. He pleads. "If You prick us [Jews]. do we not bleed...