Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though, that our instructors would tolerate X, Y statements in discussion settings given the obvious gulf between such statements and the rigorous scholarship demanded of professors and graduate students. Perhaps our instructors reason that the only way to keep undergraduates engaged in dry or challenging material is to entertain our anecdotes and X, Y statements...
...character," Ignatius J. Reilly, memorialized in bronze, loiters in perpetuity outside the former D.H. Holmes department store, now the Chateau Sonesta Hotel. The nearby Palace Cafe, once Werlein's for Music, where Reilly bought his lute string, is a good place to lunch. The cafe's player piano will entertain small fry, and the food will please the grownups. True Toole aficionados will buy a hot dog on the street in homage to Reilly's brief, catastrophic career as a vendor of frankfurters made of "rubber, cereal, tripe. Who knows...
...hope that the people who were heading west from Denver on I-70 enjoyed my best efforts to entertain them. It was a Thursday night in late January, I had finished exams (why do I always have one on the last day?), made the flight home to Colorado, and was ready to enjoy a few days of intersession solitude in the Colorado Rockies. I didn't invite my family to come along-I wanted to be by myself in the mountains. So I packed up the car and headed...
These details may individually entertain, but the big picture, cheesy and overbaked, cements its place in the mindless movie category...
Harvard left Saturday's annual Cultural Rhythms show in high spirits, pleased with a $5 well-spent. Indeed, host Will Smith was hilarious, and any event that brings together so many different student talents is bound to entertain. All of the student performers and coordinators deserve applause for their hard work...