Word: neon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like the kiosks in the Yard. I'm not usually bothered (and am often a little amused) by their neon-colored existences. But the stress of being a Harvard student--between papers, finals and trying to find a decent party on Saturday night--can really get to you if you're not careful. Anything can become a victim. Even an innocent kiosk...
...period, while trudging to Lamont with a sourcebook in my backpack and a lit cigarette in one hand (not that I smoke), I paused to glare at the closest thing to me--in this case, a kiosk. Even during this hibernation period of student activities, it was aglow with neon flyers. They all irked me. But what almost sent me over the edge was the way Jennifer Love Hewitt's face smirked at me from one of them...
...looks as if she comes from India. She slices the roast beef and reaches for the lettuce. My arm brushes against her wrist. We fix each other in a longing gaze. The lights in the deli go out, and then, in the sweaty summer evening, with the red neon pastrami sign flashing in the window, we roll around on the checkered linoleum among the containers of cole slaw and potato salad with chives. In the morning we run off together to set up a new deli in New Delhi. That's the way men "think." What...
Wednesday, February 3: Registration Day. As students register for the new spring term, many are surprised to discover in their registration packets a neon-colored flier telling them to check out Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution." At nine that morning, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science Roderick MacFarquhar tells a packed lecture hall his course had been given a "very favorable review" by the CUE Guide and that one-third of past students have found his lectures to be "enthralling and very clearly organized...
Right on the front counter is a telltale sign of the store's precarious financial situation-a neon-hued can for donations...