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It’s a shame that Lynch feels she has to pander to her patrons. One waiter told me that she rarely serves pasta, for which she is justifiably famous, because diners do not feel they should be eating pasta in such a fine restaurant. It’s a double shame, because this restaurant has so much to offer, even aside from the food: a fantastic and highly personal wine list selected by reigning Boston wine queen Cat Silirie, a passionate and brilliant service staff that not only can describe every minute detail of a dish, from farm...

Author: By Helen Springut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fish Out of Water | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

...tremendous political aplomb during his time as mayor by balancing his obligation to his constituency with a commitment to a viable and positive working relationship with the University that did not, as can often be the case in Cambridge politics, boil down to shouting slogans in an attempt to pander to extremists. Galluccio gave honest and reasonable consideration to the University’s construction proposals and was open to creative solutions, as exemplified by his courageous stance as the only councillor who opposed a moratorium on any development in the Riverside neighborhood. His respect for the University?...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Galluccio for State Senate | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...mass audience. "If radio had started to play Man of Constant Sorrow"--O Brother's most accessible tune--"they would have turned it into Achy Breaky Heart. I thank them for not playing it," says Burnett. "It would have been a novelty joke. We don't have to pander to sell a lot of records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: O Brother's Wise Father | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...final step for approval is now the Cambridge City Council, which should rethink its opposition to the project because of the tangible benefits it will bring to the area. We look to the council to follow the example of the planning board to resist the temptation to pander to parochial interests...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Tunnel of Turmoil | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...foreword to The War Against Cliché, and not without a touch of bitterness. Accused by his father, the equally, if not more famous novelist Kingsley Amis, of a “terrible compulsive vividness in his style,” Amis the younger has never been one to pander to the masses. At his best, he is a witty purveyor of critical and cultural insight; at his worst, he is an arrogant misogynist. Like many of his novels, The War Against Cliché is a tad too long and a tad too self-indulgent. The book?...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, P. PATTY Li, Frankie J. Petrosino, and Stacy A. Porter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New Books | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

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