Word: icing
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...closet has been transformed by a dedicated group of Lamonters into a space for late-night cheese soirees. But as papers and exams have compounded in recent weeks, these acts have escalated as student sanity has deteriorated. On Monday night, six students from the improv comedy troupe On Thin Ice huddled conspicuously in the corner of the Ginsberg Reading Room as 2 a.m. neared. With the room’s attention guaranteed, the students reverted 20 million years in the evolutionary process and started to scale the walls. In a matter of seconds, the six had climbed onto the fourth...
...tuned in," says Townsend. Of course, today's highly sophisticated TV commercials evolved from fairly humble origins. The first TV spot in Britain, a commercial for Gibbs SR toothpaste, aired 51 years ago during a variety show. It featured a tube of Gibbs in a block of ice. As a woman brushed her teeth, an announcer exclaimed: "It's tingling fresh. It's fresh as ice. It's Gibbs SR toothpaste." Not exactly scintillating TV. But give ad execs of the '50s a break. They were just starting to grapple with a nascent but potentially powerful medium - one they eventually...
...filming in December. In the show’s final installment, “Team Hippie”—as co-stars and fans tagged Averell and Macniven for their bohemian outfits and lighthearted attitude—traveled from Japan to Alaska, where they raced to drill ice-fishing holes, and finally arrived in Denver, Colo., where they had to arrange a set of national flags in the order in which they had visited the countries. On Wednesday night, Betty Averell joined her son, all his fellow contestants, and a select group of his friends for a viewing...
...started I didn’t see people being carried around in caravans or shopping carts the way they are now,” he says. Much to students’ and creepy gate crashers’ delight, the PG days of Primal Scream are gone with Vanilla Ice...
Much like waffles on Sundays and gratuitously awkward ice cream bashes, reading period is revered as a venerable part of Harvard’s fabric. Yet T.S. Eliot, Class of 1909 and Henry B. Adams, Class of 1858 managed to graduate sans a break to cram between classes and exams. That’s right—reading period actually began a paltry 79 years ago, under the auspices of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell. “Reading period was initially a faculty benefit, and students benefited indirectly,” says Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor...