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...tacky, Chinese restaurant variety, the type of which feature a dozen or so animals and tell you that you were born in the "Year of the Pig." Why were these placemats used? Did Ching-Hua Garden and the Hong Kong have an overstock? Other than providing a quick laugh for resturant goers, there is no connection between these mass-produced, simplistic placemats and the Chinese people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese New Year Outrage | 2/8/1990 | See Source »

...slide, Bill is on the screen going through his usual assortment of contorted facial expressions. The laugh track is screaming, but my grandfather isn't fooled...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Dialectical Albertism ? | 2/7/1990 | See Source »

...could turn gold into schmutz and they would still laugh," says my grandfather, trying to warn the world...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Dialectical Albertism ? | 2/7/1990 | See Source »

Midsummer is radical chiefly in its frivolousness. Where during the past two decades Peter Brook and other directors found dark depths of class and sexual conflict, Branagh rediscovers airy-fairy folly and anything-for-a-laugh delight. Freud has nothing to do with this version. Its inspiration is more on the order of Me and My Girl, and the song-and-dance finale was actually staged by that show's choreographer, Gillian Gregory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dimming Shakespeare's Glories | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...left to choose among many poor options: upgrade their lenses a notch and squint uncomfortably, go back to their rooms and read while they have a pizza and conversation with their roommates, regiment themsleves on taxi driver hours to find well-lit and quiet places to study (don't laugh, many students do precisely this) or blow it all off and wing the exam (this is a popular choice, too). It's a shame that something so trivial as lighting should at all stand in the way of education here at Harvard. Come on librarians, Mr. FAS (whoever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: En`light'enment at Harvard | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

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