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"Some people are happy about the building because they think that having Harvard faculty will increase the property value," said nearby resident Arshad Kahn. "But many are against it. Harvard is a bull-elephant and they just come into the area and take up everything.

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: Building Continues On Dorm for Affiliates | 9/30/1986 | See Source »

Administrators hoped that the new house office would serve as a shuttle bus stop for Cabot residents, so that they wouldn't have to walk all the way to Currier House to catch the bus. Have you ever tried to get on the shuttle bus in the morning after it...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: A Little Plaster for Your Dreams | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

EROTIC, BRUTAL, horrifying, and singularly comic, Blue Velvet marks an awesome return to form for director Lynch. In the course of his relatively brief career he has given us Eraserhead, an unsung underground classic, The Elephant Man, a bittersweet beauty-and-the-beast parable, and Dune, a $40 million dollar...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: It's a Disturbing Life | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

The plot alone would be enough to earn Blue Velvet this year's Authentic Weirdie prize. But wait, there's more. Writer-Director Lynch (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune) has stocked his movie with artifacts from every decade of postwar America; it could be taking place now, then or never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It's a Strange World, Isn't It Blue Velvet | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Lucas learned most of what he knows about merchandising from the example of Walt Disney, and Epcot's emporiums are already filled with replicas of such cuddly EO creatures as Hooter (an oboe-nosed elephant), Fuzzball (a scarlet monkey butterfly) and the Geex, Idy and Ody (sort of Siamese-twin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Feelies | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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