Word: ishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of funny. You have to have friends who are uptight, so you can be glad you're not them" says Chicu Reddy '95. "Those kind of people are fun to be with in a Woody Allen-ish type...
...years ago, at the Fifth Republic's outset, the living embodiments of sophisticated Frenchness to much of the world were the film stars Yves Montand and Simone Signoret -- the former a native Italian from a town near Florence, the latter born in Germany to an Austrian-Polish-Jew ish father. As Cyrano himself might have crowed, in a slightly different context, Vive la difference...
...society, there's not so much a love-in, is there? It's more like a survive-in," said Ish, a 33-year-old carpenter from Dorchester, who characterized the event on the Common as "a get-together for people who are looking for something--a spiritual gathering...
...Ish was one of about 100 people who gathered on the Common for frisby, free food, singing, talking, people-watching and yes, loving. Although the event was scheduled to start at noon, most people, in classic hippie style, showed up around 2 p.m. for the afternoon's festivities...
Pereira said she lives with Ish and others in a community with three houses in Boston and other homes around the world. "It's more of a family than an organization," she said. "We share all things in common...