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Word: hoods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shifts to the street. Moulton, on the other hand, establishes himself on the corner right away. Thunder/Purple Rain is a variant on the familiar sex-and-salvation theme. Elizabeth Parkinson plays a sort of fairy who transforms bystanders into lovers with a wand crowned, rather like a car's hood ornament, by a heart. Unfortunately, Moulton makes the song Purple Rain into a dismal solo that looks arduous to dance and provides little enlightenment, emotional or otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Ballet with a Savvy Street Beat | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...guessed C), congratulations! You've got your finger on the pulse of the Harvard student body. That's right--in the past few years electronic mail, known to the initiated as e-mail, has undergone a transformation in campus culture. Once a badge of geek-hood, a communication system for computer studs across the world, it has become more popular than almost any other activity--including, for many, studying. Its devotees include everyone from hard-core hackers to the computer-illiterate masses...

Author: By Ariela Migdall, | Title: In the Groovy Train | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...this two hour and forty minute production with two intermissions, celebrates Princess Aurora and Prince Desire's wedding festivities. Like Act One, Act Three takes place in the performance space at the palace with various fairies and guests dancing for the court. These guests include Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, and Puss `n' Boots and the White Cat from other fairy tales in a decision that seems out of context, employed for the sole purpose of filling out Tchaikovsky's score. A highlight of the final act is the beautiful pas de deux between a Blue Bird, danced...

Author: By Amanda S. Federman, | Title: Sleeping Beauty in Good Shape Even After 100 Years | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...phrase equivalent to "jungle fever" exists to describe Jewish feelings about intermarriage. There are plenty of Yiddish words that refer a bit wryly to so-called "gentiles", but there is no such thing as "shtetl fever". (The shtetl is the Jewish, Eastern European "hood...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Until Faith Do Us Part | 10/12/1993 | See Source »

...Harvard is not immune to racial inequality...[there is] a challenge whether we are in the academy or the hood," Chavis said...

Author: By Allyson V. Hobbs, | Title: NAACP Director: Maintain Diversity | 9/29/1993 | See Source »

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