Word: kiosk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like the kiosks in the Yard. I'm not usually bothered (and am often a little amused) by their neon-colored existences. But the stress of being a Harvard student--between papers, finals and trying to find a decent party on Saturday night--can really get to you if you're not careful. Anything can become a victim. Even an innocent kiosk...
During this past finals period, while trudging to Lamont with a sourcebook in my backpack and a lit cigarette in one hand (not that I smoke), I paused to glare at the closest thing to me--in this case, a kiosk. Even during this hibernation period of student activities, it was aglow with neon flyers. They all irked me. But what almost sent me over the edge was the way Jennifer Love Hewitt's face smirked at me from one of them...
August of 1998 brought a new look to the Harvard Square's cylindrical kiosk, a landmark of the Pit. Apple computers gave this T elevator entrance a make-over with an oversized black-and-white "Think Different" advertisement for the company. One MBTA public affairs executive confesses, "It was kind of an eyesore right there. The Apple ad makes the entrance to the station a lot nicer." Another benefit? The MBTA receives $45,000 in revenue for each three month advertising cycle. Apple, in charge of the kiosk's upkeep, outfitted the cylinder with the latest in anti-vandalism technology...
...elevator kiosk first displayed Albert Einstein for three months. George Gershwin followed, keeping with Apple's campaign that features geniuses and iconoclasts of the 20th century. The former eyesore serves as a nice ego-check for those who think that every genius went to Harvard...
...Whenever the University invests in new equipment, it always goes first to teaching classrooms. As they age, older computers move to the Science Center lab classrooms, and finally, the oldest computers make up the kiosk terminals," Steen says...