Word: graffitti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late '60s and early '70s. (1961, after all, was the year of the Latin Riots at Harvard, when students marched, chanting "Latin Si! Pusey No!", to protest then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28's decision to grant degrees in English rather than Latin. 1962 was the year of American Graffitti--where were...
...Ever seen the movie 'American Graffitti?' That's where I lived," says Steve Irion. The senior basketball co-captain grew up in Harlowtown, Montana, a hamlet of 1200 people, which earned him the nickname "Monty" when he came to Cambridge. Every Saturday, young Irion rose at 6 a.m. and went down to the asphalt courts built by the local Kiwanis Club to play roundball until sunset. When he wasn't playing basketball, Irion and his cronies "just used to hang out on Betty's corner." It was on the corner of the street and Betty owned the joint, he explains...
Richard Dreyfuss, who first gained recognition for his role in Robert Altman's "American Graffitti," will accept his award on February 22, opening the night of the Hasty Pudding's "A Thousand Clones," the Hasty Pudding announced yesterday. He is the 12th recipient of the award...
...airport or the Amtrak station. The area is very poor and very black. One ride from Washington down to Forest Hills is the best reminder that ours is not the best of all possible worlds. Forest Hills, the end of the line, is on the edge. North lie graffitti and broken glass. South stand houses and big old trees on thick lawns. Stand in the middle and figure it out if you have the stomach for this kind of paradox...
...raced down the hall, and foolishly grabbed for the closing iron-gate on the antiquated elevator. Slamming inside, and swinging the door behind me, I sensed a smell of squash rackets and straight teeth. She was there. In the elevator. With me. Well, you can only stare at the graffitti on the elevator-walls for so long, and you can only chew your shirt-collar in anxiety for so long, and you can only notice that the elevator is not moving, the elevator is not moving the elevator...