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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want a Democrat who's going to do something for my community. I don't want him to assume that just because he's a Democrat he can count on my support," Alves said...
...either. It didn't feel like I was starting exactly on the right foot when I began taking exams not four days after my arrival in Cambridge. Though I now realize that the majority of them were the only examinations I would take at Harvard that wouldn't really count, they nonetheless felt like AP exams at the time. Yet even around the tests lies an aura of nostalgia. I still remember discussing with a new friend, later to be a Quincy House roommate, several questions from the first QRR test I was to fail. En route to lunch...
When the President has been scheduled to throw out the first ball on opening day of the baseball season, for instance, I often wonder if he's tempted to put in some secret bullpen practice with a catcher whose discretion he could count on--Web Hubbell, maybe--just to reduce the chances that his first attempt to put one over the plate could panic the customers in the box seats behind third base. I wouldn't blame...
...silver-buckled black vinyl corset (worn on the outside) make her a techno-goth--for the day at least. She is passionately apathetic, as if to spite her father, who demonstrated against the war from the City College of New York to Berkeley and who by his own count was arrested "about 11 times." But isn't there still poverty and inequity? she is asked...
...Dandridge sang of "Ten little jitterbug boys" with Louis Armstrong in Going Places and about the "Harlem Sandman" ("He makes you Count Basie/ Instead of countin' sheep") in Hit Parade of 1943. She starred in the video-jukebox "soundies," dolled up in jewels for Easy Street or jiving expertly in Swing for Your Supper ("They made me rock 'n' roll...brought me up on good ol' rhythmatic"). In the 1940 Sun Valley Serenade she introduced Chattanooga Choo Choo, dancing with the great Nicholas brothers. By then Dottie was a solo act. Much later, Vivian worked as her star sister...