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...these few hours, more immediate than the Mental Health Crisis, will be the impending and ravaging Frozen Body Disaster. Please mitigate our indefatigable thick-headedness by stationing ambulances outside the Yard tonight. This is the most selective university in the world, but this is also the home of the Owl...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don't Be An Idiot | 1/16/2004 | See Source »

Charles Frazier's 1997 best seller, Cold Mountain, is The Odyssey compressed, Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge expanded to saga dimensions. As much as Inman aches to return to a woman he barely knew, but knew he loved, the novel's vivid prose needed to be turned into moving pictures. Paging Anthony Minghella, adapter-director of The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: O Lover, Where Art Thou? | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

RETIRED. BERNARD TRINK, 72, revered and reviled newspaperman whose "Night Owl" column extolled for nearly four decades the sybaritic pleasures available to expatriate men in Thailand's capital; in Bangkok. The Brooklyn-born Trink covered the city's go-go bars, massage parlors and pubs, making the rounds with his Thai wife in tow, owl medallion around his neck and maroon polyester pants hitched up to his chest. He wrote in a retro style in which prostitutes were "demimondaines," and press releases were preceded by the phrase, "The tom toms have it ..." His signature sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/20/2003 | See Source »

...they’re friends,” says Yan of the band’s stage props. “I really am fond of the owl, and if I’m struggling, I’ll go over and just try and stare it in the eyes. It makes me feel like I’m in a David Lynch film...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: British Sea Power | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...punch event involves taking a boat somewhere, don’t get so drunk you pass out and fall off the back of the boat. This is how people end up in the Owl...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen handy tips for punch/rush season | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

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