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Word: mitzvah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first act gives way to a more serious, slightly more disillusioned second act. Two years have passed; Trina and Mendel are married; Whizzer and Martin have broken up; and the "lesbians from next door" are always running in and out. It is the year of Jason's Bar Mitzvah, and the characters all seem to hope that this one pivotal event will smooth over their unstable lives. Whizzer, however, shows up again, complicating everything by getting back together with Martin, aggravating Trina, and, finally, falling mysteriously...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Quirks Make for Fabulous Falsettos | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...fairly reliable work. Unfortunately, when Hooker strays too far from his standard style, the results are disappointing. For example, the first song, "Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)," sounds like Santana's own classic "Black Magic Woman" at its high point, but at its low point resembles a Bar Mitzvah band's version of Tito Puente. In a sense, Hooker's voice and Santana's style are completely incongruous. Or in other words, blues and samba just...

Author: By Jed D. Silverstein, | Title: Hooker's Got the Blues Down Deep | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

...those unaffected, we should remind everyone that Dylan R. Nieman '98 has a cousin. Dylan's cousin had a bar mitzvah. And Dylan had a tuxedo he was going to wear to his cousin's bar mitzvah. Perhaps it was a heavy tuxedo--or so the ceiling sprinkler head must have thought. After hanging the garment on the aforementioned safety equipment, the entire dorm quickly became flooded with water and some type of fire-retardant tar substance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCREAMING IN THE RAIN | 10/15/1994 | See Source »

Dylan R. Nieman '98 hung his tuxedo for his cousin's bar mitzvah on a water sprinkler head at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, setting off sprinklers throughout the building...

Author: By Kris J. Thiessen, | Title: College Unsure About Paying Flood Damages | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

Nieman, who inadvertently caused the entire mess, planned to spend today at a bar mitzvah in Montreal, Canada...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis and William G. Nee, S | Title: Hollis Floors Flood, and More Than a Friday Night Is Ruined | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

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