Word: downtown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proper way to snap, to dress and to travel. They will learn how to sing ballads in Krok style and learn how to dance some of the finest moves of the 1920s with fellow "big galloofs." They will learn new heights of preppiness, hopping taxis to get to whatever downtown big-shot wants them, and how to tie a bow-tie without a mirror. Surely they will learn how to guzzle the Dark and Stormy, the drink of choice for the Kroks when they visit Bermuda, which they do every spring break. They will learn how to make audiences laugh...
With a defunct sitcom and a fledgling talk show, a girl's got to find some way to get attention. So last week ROSEANNE and the Barr Flies commandeered New York City's legendary downtown club CBGB and cracked some of rock's finer chestnuts. Opening with a Rolling Stones medley, the former Ms. Arnold interpreted Satisfaction in ways Mick Jagger surely never intended and with a refreshing indifference to melody. She screeched her way through My Generation and I Wanna Be Sedated, pausing only to eat chocolate, swill beer and swear, charming the young crowd with her atonal exuberance...
...stress out of anyone. Day and night jaunts to Olmstead's stunning Arnold Arboretum, 265 acres of landscaped beauty with a sweeping view of Boston; a hike through the nine parks of the renowned Emerald Necklace; and a "Waterways Boston Tour" through Jamaica Pond, the Back Bay Fens and downtown secret garden. Perhaps the most notorious, the Freedom Trail leads through Boston's bastions of revolutionary fervor and architectural masterpieces-it's a history lesson in and of itself (Boston Park Rangers, 1010 Mass. Ave.; 635-7383; tours leave from various sites in the city and a schedule is available...
...Bust out of Cambridge and drop the H-bomb on blind date. LunchDates (Statler Building, Park Square, Downtown Boston; 254-3000) arranges for you to meet someone in a public restaurant without revealing your last name or telephone number. It's sorta like the witness relocation program for the criminally single...
...latest entry in New York City's alternative-theater boomlet, this disco version of A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place in a downtown club where the audience stands while the performers mingle, gyrate, sing '70s hits and enact something vaguely resembling a play by William Shakespeare. The guys are played by girls in wigs and mustaches; the fairies by guys in loincloths and glitter; and Bottom is a pair of street dudes who together are transformed into the show's title ass. Shakespeare must be spinning, but the retro high spirits are hard to resist...