Word: gowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack, the prototypical World War II vet who's got a metal plate in his head, and Elaine, who got so wrapped up in the slot machines that she forgot to visit her kids on Christmas. And of course there's Ida, an aging widow who wears her finest gown and all of her jewelry to come play cards. Twice a month, I took my place among this vulgar spectacle to try my luck at Seven Card Stud or Texas Hold'em. My first few visits were far from pretty; not just a slow bleed of cash, more like...
There's no doubt that the film played toward every nerd stereotype and town-gown conflict it possibly could. The MIT math professor who discovers Hunting's genius is your basic arrogant academic who can't believe that the boy who sweeps his classroom can also solve equations. Hunting's girlfriend, a Harvard senior headed for med school, is rich, privileged, and housed in an ivy-covered dorm which could be any of Harvard's undergraduate houses...
Both University administrators and city officials hailed the move as a milestone for town-gown relations because it provided a boost to the city's flagging level of low-income housing...
Glenn S. Koocher '71, a Cambridge political analyst, described the 1996 showdown between Galluccio and Wolf as a "classic town-versus-gown" election. The race pits Galluccio, "the lunch-pail democrat" against Wolf, "the limousine liberal," quipped Koocher, who hosts a local public-access television show on city politics...
...Hong Kong is one of the more stable denizens of a region where the once grand gown of the Asian Miracle is weekly growing more frayed and tattered. From Seoul to Bangkok, economies that earlier made annual double-digit growth look easy are now strangling on a lethal brew of skyrocketing interest rates, current-account deficits, shrinking budgets and rapid flight of the foreign loans and capital that in many countries underwrote the miracle. "Right now my feeling is one of despair," says a Jakarta stockbroker who has watched the Indonesian stock market drop 33% since July. (It was down...