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Word: kiosks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paragraphs described a kiosk that had been set up in the newly renovated arcade. This particular stand dealt in women's hair accessories, and the salesperson (note the gender neutral term), had told me that female workers in the Holyoke Center were her best customers. I innocently included this fact in my article...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: The Neutering of Language | 12/17/1993 | See Source »

...suspect crossed Massachusetts Avenuenear the Nini's Corner newspaper stand and enteredthe underground T station, an unmarked grey Dodgewith bald tires, driven by a plainclothesCambridge police officer, screeched to a stopbeside the Out of Town News kiosk...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Thief Nabbed In Harvard Sq. | 12/16/1993 | See Source »

...revamped Holyoke shopping area is bright, flashy, and modern. Its "Forbes Arcade" is full of specialty booths and tiny stores, most of which hawk accessories and gift items--a kite shop, an ethnic handicraft "kiosk," a booth devoted exclusively to the sale of pepper. Holyoke Center is now a piece of an ongoing trend: the mall-ification of Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Malling the Square | 11/10/1993 | See Source »

...Poon," Dave said. David J. Kennedy `93, writer, orator, and effete ne'er-do-well, was standing before me in one of his tiffs. He let out a huff of indignation, mussing his debate jock/skate rat bangs. He handed me a crude flyer which he had ripped off a kiosk. It read, "Come to the Harvard Lampoon's Fourth Annual Head of the Charles Prep School Open House. Refreshments served, admission tips offered. Just knock!" Beneath, a crude map invited every Groton, Exeter and Andover refugee to beat a path to our pari-colored door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Better Dead than Head | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

After taking back the function of the kiosk, the Square will finally begin to reappropriate the space for itself. Performers will come out of the woodwork--first a timid juggler, then a JFK-Mark-David-Chapman-CIA-Stephen-King conspiracy theorist and a pitiful guitarist who thinks he's Jimi Hendrix...

Author: By Christopher Capozzola, | Title: Down with The Shops: A Manifesto | 10/8/1993 | See Source »

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