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...opening scene sets the sinister tone that persists throughout the production. A soft drum ominously begins to pound, a heartbeat of foreboding that only Edgar Allen Poe could inspire. The lighting, formed of flickering lanterns and the soft green glow of midnight, calls to mind a dungeon, to greatly sinister effect...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Nevermore’ Reimagines Poe | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...that time again: Flyby has gone in search of the best House gyms. Those mysterious and dungeon like havens of good health protect upperclassmen from the freshmen masses or the judgmental gaze of law school students. For a refresher on where we've been before, here are the first two house gym posts: Adams/Lowell/Quincy and Eliot/Kirkland/Winthrop...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: Get Your Swell On: House Gyms Part 3 | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

Harvard's international man of mystery, Kane came to be the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' registrar, from the ivory dungeon that is our arch rival: Yale University. Then and now he was rarely seen, but often heard...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Happy Study Card Day: The Barry Kane Edition | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...knack for finding the unsung dungeon for dinner helps explain why Steves is the unchallenged Baedeker of his generation: he just works it harder than anyone else does. Over the past three decades, Steves, now 54, has written more than 30 European guidebooks, phrase books and travel companions. Walk from Rome's Campo dei Fiori to the Spanish Steps on any evening this summer and you will spy his blue-and-yellow books under countless arms. Last week, 10 of the 20 best-selling European travel books on Amazon.com had Steves' name on the cover. When he's not updating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rick Steves: The Traveler's Aid | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...Back in 2006 the film Unknown threw five men into a dungeon and robbed them all of any recollection of how they got there. The Hangover takes this scientifically suspicious multiple-amnesia gimmick, references about a dozen Vegas movies (from Leaving Las... to What Happens in... to Rain Man) and applies all the numbingly familiar tropes of the bromance comedy that have made this flourishing subgenre as rigid in its conventions as Kabuki theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hangover: A Bro-Magnon Bromance | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

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