Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fallen Reagan Administration officials fit into some broad categories. There are the Foxes in the Chicken Coop: those appointed to enforce regulations they chafed under while in the private sector and who, once in office, seemed eager to undermine them. There are the Public-Service Privateers: appointees from the business world who carried their Wall Street ethos into the public sector. The True Believers: officials whose loyalty and ambition overcame their judgment and principles. And People with a Past: officials undone by acts committed before entering government...
STEVE AND I set off for downtown Harvard Square in the middle of Friday afternoon rush hour. We positioned ourselves in front of the mailboxes outside the Coop, and asked random passersby: "excuse me, would you like to use the mailbox...
Today, the Rear Window continues to maintain this casual tradition. Kleiler shows his films in locations as diverse as Chet's Last Call, the Brookline Arts Center, and the Boston Food Coop. At a screening I attended last year, a series of Nick Zedd shorts were shown on a portable screen in the now defunct Studio 54 on Queensbury Street in the Fenway. The audience lounged on the floor, passing around beer from a Bud suitcase to friends and strangers alike, while Lydia Lunch spouted profanities overhead...
...best way to get high quality recordings for low prices is cutouts. These are recordings that a record company has decided to delete from its catalog, often because they want to make them available only in compact disc. Places like the Harvard Coop sell hundreds of them for about half the price of other recordings. They require rummaging through--there is much tripe among the treasure--but they often reward patience. Records' liner notes, by the way, often provide interesting information about the composer, piece and performers...
Many loyal customers of Revolution Books hope they will stay near the Square. "I'd rather buy my books there than get a 10 percent discount at the Coop. They're cool," said a Harvard student who frequents the bookstore...