Word: hangout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brings you a taste of old Mexico" seemed desperate to convince you how great your food was going to be. My tostada did not live up to the hype. Leaving aside the issue of my underachieving tostada, the main factor preventing Casa Mexico from becoming the next hot student hangout is that it's butt-expensive. That's right, BUTT-expensive. None of the entrees cost less than ten dollars and none of the appetizers cost less than four dollars. So, budget-minded types will have to be satisfied with contemplating the outside mural while eating a slice of pizza...
...City Poet recalls an era when a dispute over the relative merits of Eliot and Stevens could strain a friendship, when a pro-Yeats faction at the Advocate battled with a pro-Auden contingent of modernist mavericks, and when the smoke-filled Grolier Bookshop was a bona-fide artists' hangout. All of these pretensious goings-on would be laughable if they hadn't spawned some of the most talented artists in the nation, and Gooch does an excellent job of evoking the air of social frivolity that surrounded these innovative discussions...
Three times a week, for years, I used to meet my father after school to do my homework. We would meet at his office at Yale and then go to Naples, the local college restaurant and hangout, to eat a snack and study...
...show-biz seriousness is over. Cohn will generate a zillion dollars in commissions this year, but he will earn it off pleasant trifles like Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle and Manhattan Murder Mystery -- in which the main characters are habitues of Elaine's, Woody's Upper East Side hangout that was the hottest restaurant on earth during exactly the period when Sam Cohn was the hottest agent. The glorious moment for a certain cliquishly upper-middle-brow Manhattan high life -- back when Saturday Night Live and Vanity Fair were brand new, back before AIDS and Soon-Yi -- has passed...
...when undergraduates return to Harvard in the fall, many other things about the Hong Kong restaurant, a perennial late-night hangout, will look different. After 15 years, the second-floor lounge of the Kong is undergoing renovation, according to manager of the restaurant...