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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whoever the opponent of the week is). The humor, I suppose, derives from the provocative fact that the word "ruck" rhymes with the American colloquialism which connotes copulation. Unfortunately, most people have, since elementary school, exhausted the possibilities that this rhyme pattern offers--with words such as duck, truck, luck, puck, muck, and suck, many of which are even commonly used in America...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Life is Short--Poster Hard | 10/2/1993 | See Source »

Loews Janus. 57 JFK St., Harvard Square. 661-3737. "The Joy Luck Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not at Harvard Entertainment & Events | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...give me some guinea-pig comper to mark up. So if I was going to get some dirt about tattooing, I would need to get one myself. I couldn't, after all, pretend that my dignity prohibited me from going under the needle. I'm already marked--thrice, as luck would have it: a pathetic whale on my right ankle, a David Smith sculpture (Voltri-Bolton I) on my left ankle, and two androgynous tangoers on my left bicep...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: TATTOO YOU | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...with the authorities -- a year that gave Power time to gradually reveal herself to those who had come to love Alice Metzinger. On Sept. 12, Alice Metzinger held a going-away party, where she announced that she was headed for prison. Her friends showered her with gifts of good-luck charms, a stone and a feather, and a map of the night sky, which Robin Llewellyn, a co-worker at the coffee shop, says was given to her so that "she can experience the outside without being outside." Power's husband told TIME, "When she would be asked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Fugitive | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...course, making a lunch like that takes a determination, skill and luck...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Lunch of a Lifetime | 9/23/1993 | See Source »

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