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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it came time to repair the wood casing, Randall says she received a call from the artisan who was unaware of the old Harvard tradition of flinging butter onto the "Great Hall" ceiling...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Airy Barker Center Replaces Union | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...view the latest comings and goings with an objective eye, colored only by a vague sense of jealousy. First-years don't know how good they have it during Orientation Week, nor will they know it until afterward. As in that first junior-high dance, they tentatively step onto the parquet floor, nervously approach their classmates and ask them what activities they did in high school (well, the metaphor breaks down after a while). Only once the Orientation Week dance is over do they realize how much fun they...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: Doing the Orientation Week Dance | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

Sheila Kennedy, Kennedy & Violich; professor, Harvard School of Design. Minicameras are fixed to each desk, which have wheels to simplify "crossing the aisle." Skylights are replaced with a translucent screen showing the caucuses in the hallways outside. World events are projected onto scrims in the gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 8, 1997 | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

Gary Panter, designer: Pee Wee's Playhouse. The chamber is a concrete island floating in a burning sea of oil. Speakers are lowered onto the floor by their ankles through a skylight. Seating is quite diverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 8, 1997 | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...affairs, our poor lives." He pushed himself away from the table, yanking the end of the tablecloth he had mistaken for a napkin and tucked into his trousers. As plates flew through the air and exploded on the floor all around him, a wheel of black bread bounced onto its edge and rolled slowly out the kitchen door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE AFTER MIR | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

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