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Just as the admissions office give preference to Harvard legacies, having had a family member in the Porc counts in one's favor. On the page for Michael Gordon Douglas '96, for example, "LEG" is written and underlined near the top, with the note "Bros. Hon. Douglas '30, '57". Dad and granddad (J. Gordon Douglas Jr. '30 and III '57), it seems, were members of the club...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: So Many NB Candidates At Old Barn | 3/5/1994 | See Source »

...these guys do not take themselves that seriously. There is a naivete in the way the melodies are sung, which can translate into a sing-song-y ambience, but things never get boring. Moxy Fruvous mixes things up, offering a funny song about a poor guy whose girlfriend says, "Hon drop dead, I'd rather go to bed/with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.' Cuddle up with William S. Burroughs, Leave on the light for bell hooks." There's also an ode to the e-z recliner chair, "The Lazy Boy," and a cover the "Spiderman" song. These guys even top the diversity...

Author: By James B. Loeffler, | Title: Moxy by the peck | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...mean my discontent is provoked by self-doubt and internal crisis, and not by the snow? CW: Yup, hon. Only you can heal yourself. Try some sticky rice, and don't even think about the eggplant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truth from the Dining Hall | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...last year as the "advance single") is a witty, sad, reticent boy's version of a romantic breakdown: he begins by telling a girl that their future is up to her, and ends in a swoon of self-accusation: "A pit with spikes is what I'm bringing you, hon.../ I'm not so deep that I can't be swum..." There's also a incongruously, startlingly cool falsetto bridge where head Egg Andrew Beaujon sounds exactly like Prince (with a temporarily funked-up backbeat to match). "Why Am I So Tired All the Time?" and "Evanston, IL" are quiet...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: ONE CHORD WONDERS | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...Strippers with hearts of gold, like Urbana Sprawl, who compares her profession to wing walking: "You're fine, long as you don't look down." And Monique Jr., who assures a nervous dancer, "It's a slumber party, hon. That's how come we're in our nighties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Rules | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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