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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Thayer, apparently the Trump Tower of freshman dorms, brought out Domna, Petros, and the Opportunes, among other campus celebs, to liven up a dorm-wide masquerade ball held at the Natural History Museum last Thursday...

Author: By Li S. Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Thayer Mocktail, Better Than a Cocktail | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...entity of that photography,” Burns said. He’s been at it ever since. “I have spent my life trying to express history in a broad, popular way.” Burns emphasized that he tries to liven up the history that can often be dismissed as dead or boring by exploring the larger meaning and implications behind it. “I think that the excavation of the dry dates and facts have really little meaning,” said Burns. “Why you really want to mine the past...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ken Burns Pans Over National Parks | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...headdress dripping with beads and feathers. TV viewers will see the more conventional Belafonte-Harper again next fall when she returns to her Hotel information desk. Maybe if fans complain, stern James Brolin, who runs the hostelry, will let her cut loose. Why not that headdress and feathers to liven up the lobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shari Belafonte-Harper | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...have helped boost the event. Although this race used to draw big names like former Olympian Danny Clark and Tour de France workhorse George Hincapie, as well as amateurs, organizers say attendance at this four-corner criterium (a short race course) has suffered in more recent years. To liven things up a bit, Eustice decided to bring two very different cycling cultures together on the same 3/4-mile course along the brownstone-lined streets of Harlem - the pros and the bike messengers. "I almost look at them as the artists colonizing the big race," says Eustice, who organized the event. "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Harlem Bike Messengers Race | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

Reality television programs have dealt with this actual reality in a number of ways: They liven up the more mundane moments of everyday life with high-stakes competition, exotic locales, or the prospect of fame, no matter how faint (see: “The Surreal Life”). Some combine all three of these things...

Author: By Claire G. Bulger | Title: This is the Real World? | 5/12/2008 | See Source »

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