Word: linoleum
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Dangereux didn't explicitly say he was finding the whole high-class restaurant thing pretentious. But what he did was to take over a small replica barn in a rustic-style shopping center in one of Cape Town's more distant suburbs, floor it with linoleum and call it the Food Barn. The result may be the best value fine dining on the continent, if not anywhere. Imagine half a dozen sensational oysters for $5. The perfect Japanese-style tuna tartare for $8. A bouillabaisse terrine set on mussels and a creamy saffron sauce for $10. Dangereux even persuaded...
...while their struggle to make it in the U.S. has the makings of a moving immigrant narrative and meditation on the post-1989 Chinese diaspora, its schematic nature prevents it from being fully realized. The Wus go from sleeping on the linoleum bathroom floor in a slummy, cockroach-infested apartment to full ownership of a lakeside home with a backyard in less than five years; they're forced to deal with the usual petty racism; Taotao's Mandarin, to the dismay of his parents, quickly degenerates, as does his filial piety; the Wus are barraged by a snooty Chinese emigrant...
Unfortunately for you prefrosh who will decide to come to Harvard, all great empires (Roman, British, Ottoman, Yankees) must enter decline. Next year will be recorded as marking the beginning of Harvard’s linoleum era. What can we say? Things were just better when we were prefrosh. Coming to Harvard after us is like inheriting the Roman Empire after the Antonine dynasty. If you don’t understand the allusion, it’s ok. When we were freshmen, we got it. Likewise, our folders were crimson, not red, Cambridge never had weather below 70 degrees, Nobel...
...masters, the Porters, are the reason Funster is so unfun. If the rumor isn’t true, Dunsterites really have no excuse.ELIOT: Eliot is home to Master Lino, who gives speeches about Dante and Charles Eliot flying over the Charles together at random, wine-sodden special dinners. The linoleum floors are straight out of the projects and the JCR is always booked, but at least you have the “Eliot House Mafia,” otherwise known as the Resident tutors, to get your back in your wars against the unfriendly dining staff.KIRKLAND: Kirkland House does seem...
...theater at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center is an old ballroom that gets better with altitude. On the ground, a linoleum floor and interlocking gray wall panels seem like they belong in a middle school cafeteria. Yet the lavishly decorated ceiling, rich with blue and green paint, seems to have avoided any kind of unnecessary municipal “improvement” over the years...