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...strobes were going crazy, the crowd was jumping, the people onstage as effervescent as could be. About the only thing lacking was audience interaction--LRD never once talked to the crowd. Two more nondescript album filler songs later, a long, long house music introduction played, lu Cont and Reynolds led the audience into double handclaps and arm wavings, before the synth chorus of "From: Disco to Disco" finally kicked...

Author: By Darly Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Les Rythmes Is Gonna Get You | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...Mather's dining hall is a ski lodge, Currier's is an EconoLodge. Familiarity is a large part of comfort, and most residents are probably familiar with nondescript hotels; making the dining hall into the lobby of one, however, does nothing but conjure up the warmth of tepid coffee from free continental breakfasts. In trying to produce comfort for the masses, Currier stumbled upon mass-produced comfort. The dining hall's attempt to turn its institutional space into a homey place is bipartite: the area tries to hint at the comfort of the natural world (bridging the distance between...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, | Title: Chew With Your Eyes Open: Crimson Arts Examines the Aesthetics of Harvard's Dining Halls | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...whipping through the semen extraction process. But as God had willed it, the Cryobank was much less than I expected, handling, so to speak, a mere 15 men a day, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The waiting room was like that of any family practioner--nondescript furniture, carpeting and framed prints. Not a single Sports Illustrated to be found, I settled for Single Mom by Choice magazine. I soon learned that artificial insemination remains the luxurious alternative to adoption because it allows the mother-consumer to customize exactly how her final product will look and behave...

Author: By Eliot I. Hodges, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Giving the Gift of Life | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

Funk glances down at her nondescript outfit of jeans and a long-sleeve shirt...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Garment District: Heaven in a Pile of Clothes at Cambridge's Vintage Mart | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

Walking into the 13-year-old movie studio--crammed into a nondescript office complex outside San Francisco--is like entering a Fellini film, with wacky characters and even wackier settings: circus-striped umbrellas, fake mustache collections, kitschy dolls, TV memorabilia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pixar Animation Studios: Home of the Toys | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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