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...above and beyond the food, the decor, and Colin, the patrons are what make Liberty a mecca. Harvard students have yet to overrun this den of MIT students and Central Square locals. Wardrobe-wise, the fashion consensus seems to be black, black and some black eyeliner with maybe a little black lipstick. Half the patrons seem to mysteriously choose orange as an alternative. A woman with blue hair in an orange Guttermouth t-shirt reads some book about alchemy. A pack of men in makeup hovers by the register. We argue over whether the student at the next table...

Author: By Lindsey M. Turrentine, | Title: Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité! | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...that we might no longer cherish the pride of living in a certain house, because the computer gets us there. When total randomization takes over from the next year on, future Harvardians living in Adams will never know that once upon a time this old dark place was mecca for artists...

Author: By Xiaomeng Tong, | Title: Onward to Randomization | 3/24/1995 | See Source »

...faithful arrived at a scruffy block in Greenwich Village and descended a precarious flight of stairs to a dark, low-ceilinged room. Sitting on rickety wooden chairs, squeezed in along scarred red leather banquettes, they heard, over six nights, the sort of performers who have made the Vanguard the Mecca of Hip for the past half-century: jazz diva Shirley Horn, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, cafa swell Bobby Short, folk singer Pete Seeger and Professor Irwin Corey, the "World's Foremost Authority," who was once a comic mainstay of the club. Back in the '40s, when the Vanguard's founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A ROOM WITH A VIBE | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...Years ago, it was a very tough part of town.It was basically the back of City Hall," Demongsays. "Then it became a Mecca for funky littleshops...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Old Days of Quiet Neighborhood Die | 2/17/1995 | See Source »

Held at the track "mecca" of the Boston area--Harvard's own Gordon Track and Tennis Center--both the men and women's squads faced squads from Northeastern, Boston college, Bentley and Brandies. The women also faced teams from Boston University and Tufts...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Men's Track Captures GBC's, W. Thinclads Finish Third | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

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