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Wealthier students can ride this tide with the upwardly mobile; others may find it harder to keep apace as the Square begins to flirt in earnest with chi-chi consumerism. I hear there's still an army surplus store at Central Square where, coincidentally, you can also find the proletariat fast food Cambridge opposes. At least at McDonald's two dollars can buy you dinner, not just a sugar rush...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: I Scream | 11/2/1983 | See Source »

...even when we no longer require their presence. Then, too, we will miss the sound, the clackbop from the house next door that signaled the Great American Novel in progress, or the Great American Last-Minute Term Paper. Writers will miss their old machines greatly, even as they now flirt pantingly with Apple IIs. They will even miss the mistakes they used to make. This sort of msitake. The new machines correct so perfectly that they do not show error, and sometimes error was nice to see, a useful memento of human sloppiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Last Page in the Typewriter | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...privy, as she grew up, to glimpses of an artist that outsiders seldom saw. He was Uncle Al to her, an old gent who liked chocolate ice cream cones and miniature golf, and who used summers at the Stieglitz family compound in Lake George, N.Y., to relax and flirt innocently with young female relatives. She knew him as a character before she bumped into his legend: "It was not until 1932 or 1933, when I was ten or eleven years old, that I began to sense the deep respect in which he was held even by the artist and writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teaching a Century to See | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...rights movements, the Catholic left, and a Peace Corps mission to Ecuador before landing him in a neighborhood synagogue on New York City's West Side. Cowan, for many years a reporter for the Village Voice, makes no bones about the anxiety and ambivalence he faced after starting to flirt in earnest with his Jewish roofs, and with the possibility of resuming some sort of observant lifestyle. But at the same time he makes clear--with no apologies-the almost mystical drag of his search...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Paths to the Past | 11/24/1982 | See Source »

...singing You Made Me Love You, and he sang the second verse." The shipboard romance adjourned at 3 a.m., when H had to go on duty. "He said he wants to see us again when he gets back to London," says St. James. "He's certainly a flirt, and it's quite clear he likes being with the ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 20, 1982 | 9/20/1982 | See Source »

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