Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When things get too weird, a small crew of angst-ridden teenagers steps in to save the day. There's Stan, the wannabe intellectual football captain; Stokely, the grungy science fiction-reading loner; Zeke, the brilliant drug-dealing second-year senior; Delilah, the self loathing head cheerleader; Marybeth, the annoyingly innocent new girl; and finally the outcast Casey, played by Elijah Wood, who's a bit too cute for his supposedly nerdy character. Relying on Stokely's knowledge of science fiction--"if you kill the queen, everything will go back to normal... in theory"--this mismatched group of teens plots...
...Five classes, captaining dorm crew, intramural curling: every Harvard student knows how to juggle the parts of their so-called life. Now learn how to do it with bowling pins! Every Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m., the Harvard Juggling Club meets to practice pin-tossing and other aerial acrobatics. In rare good weather the stage of choice is Tercentenary Theater; the club gathers in the MAC Mezzanine the other 11.5 months of the year. Newcomers are welcomed with open and dexterous arms, as founder and President Daniel I. Cousin `00 stresses that absolutely no previous juggling experience is necessary...
...construction crew, this means that most mornings begin at 6 a.m. and work continues throughout the weekends...
...Grandmaster Flash. He played his turntables as if he were Jimi Hendrix, cuing records with his elbow, his feet, behind his back. He invented "scratching"--spinning a record back and forth to create a scratchy sound. He tried rapping, but he couldn't do it, so he gathered a crew around him--the Furious Five, rap's first supergroup...
...Mill Valley, Calif., in a one-bedroom apartment above a coin-operated laundry, Andre Mehr, a white 17-year-old with a crew cut, and Emiliano Obiedo, a ponytailed 16-year-old who is half white and half Hispanic, are huddled over a PC. A beat spirals up. Obiedo offers some advice, and Mehr clatters away at the keyboard. They are making music. Once they settle on a beat, Obiedo will take a diskette bearing a rhythm track home and lay down some rhymes. Soon they hope to have enough for a CD. Boasts Obiedo: "I'm going to change...