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...letter in response to a Dartboard piece ("A Beef With Bamboo Shoots," Feb. 19, 1995) about the art exhibit co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA) displayed in the Science Center. We hadn't realized The Crimson had the luxury of replacing editorial space with tabloid gossip. We guess you couldn't even call it that--though the cattiness is there, most columns do a bit more research into their subject to avoid looking foolish after publication...
Unfazed, Phil extolled the gossip value of late nights. "We want to make sure everyone's in bed before we're in bed so we don't miss anything...
Beware of some of the pitfalls you may encounter on the way. Holding hands on the streets, for example, can lead to gossip and sabotage the situation. Halt for no man, as stopping to talk to friends cools the flames of passion...
...defeat.'' The boast is testament to her ability to craft legend out of the exigencies of real life. Of course, Rose Kennedy knew age and weariness and defeat. Many times over. She outlived four of her children and a husband who loved and humiliated her. She endured the haunting gossip and relentless scrutiny accorded all her family. With strictness, with humor, with a sense of style at once down-to-earth and every bit a match for her daughter-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Rose ruled and shaped the clan when sometimes it all must have been too much...
Happily, Watkins, Lopes and Thomas have been doing more than getting in the gossip columns lately; they've also been getting better. Their 1992 debut album, Ooooooohhh ... on the TLC Tip, sold almost 3 million copies but was instantly forgettable. CrazySexyCool features slinky singing, bouncy beats and grabby rap interludes, and the vocals are stronger and the melodies more piquant than those on the first album. Several songs stand out, including Creep, a slightly jazzy dance number, and the delicately saucy Red Light Special, a love song written by Babyface (who has composed recent hits for Boyz...