Word: home
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What else does this professor enjoy doing on the weekends? A big clue comes in the form of his Web page, www.geocities.com/SoHo/6816, the home of his band, the Redundant Steaks. The group, which Vaux formed with three other classmates in his undergrad days at the University of Chicago, has produced four major projects to date. "Columbian Inventions" (a collection of songs in honor/protest of Columbus Day), "Buster Crabbe" (celebrating the life of the actor who played Tarzan, Superman, and other macho characters in early movies), "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: The Twelve-Tone Rock Opera," "Liquid Dwarf, Rusty Dwarf" (an album...
...claws and saw that two big parking tickets had been slapped on his car. Grant drove over to the parking office and requested a spot in Peabody Terrace, his next choice. Without referring to lottery results, he was granted his demand. His car now resides happily near his Dunster home. His sister Devon maintains "I think if you're a good sweet-talker, you can get what you want. It's all about knowing what...
...into thin, elegant pieces, Harvey C. Mansfield '49 sips a glass of red wine a la Julia Child. "I have never made cupcakes before," he said, responding to a suggestion that they be served for dessert. "I once did baking powder biscuits." As a junior high schooler, Mansfield took Home Economics. "They taught us how to sew on a button," he recalls painfully. "This might be quite useful...for a man without a wife...
...Prince of Conservatives," as Harvard Magazine recently dubbed him, is almost at home cooking the first full meal of his life. While he is more comfortable teaching a popular class on ancient and medieval political philosophy or conducting research on his new book, entitled Manliness, Mansfield also enjoys being provocative. His hyperbole becomes campus controversy. He calls gay sex "shameful." He speculates that the rise in black students at Harvard has led to grade inflation. He repeatedly warns against the dangers of disrespecting manliness...
...random celebrities hosting the show, including the guy who played Elaine's leather-jacket-wearing boyfriend for an episode of "Seinfeld," Martha Sokoloff, and "some California-looking guy from Baywatch" (a later e-mail revealed it was David Chokachi, who reminds Vaux of Chuck E. Cheese), Vaux nails home his point. "Two of the guys picked Led Zeppelin. Marla picked Hole...