Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dracula was enough. But Transylvania-born Codrescu may be blowing paprika in the eyes of history. A professor at Louisiana State University, a poet and a guest commentator on National Public Radio, he also edits the literary magazine Exquisite Corpse. The name is pinched from an old surrealist parlor game in which verse and drawings are collaged from players' contributions...
Since the death in the past few years of conductors Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, music lovers have amused themselves with a rather desperate parlor game: Where will the next great maestro come from? And when? Well, here's one answer: from California, and right now. From his dazzling appearances during the past two weeks with the Lyons Opera and Ballet in San Francisco and Berkeley, Kent Nagano has confirmed his spot at the head of the class of young conductors leading music into the future...
...tell you the rumors about what's going to be coming in," Tyson said, listing a massage parlor, a bakery and an expansion of Tommy's House of Pizza as among the possible replacements...
...sound the same to me. I can't keep all the things I have to do straight in my head. There are placement tests and mandatory meetings, extracurricular open-houses and social events highlighted in the little first-year booklet I've been given. On my way to Parlor B, I think I'm lost...
...This will be the first of countless times I'll see him walking through the Yard. This is a scene that is idyllically Harvard for me. But on that day, he looks like yet another student I've never seen before. He introduces himself, gives me directions to Parlor B, and we part. Later in the week, at the hazing meeting, I find out that he is my Senior Advisor--for now, that just means to me that he matched me up with my roommate...