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...constantly watching," insists Thomas A. Wagner, controller at the Harvard Coop. Cameras record customers' movements, and store detectives posing as shoppers are present "at all times," according to Allan Powell, general manager of the Coop. During peak shopping periods, uniformed Cambridge police officers even stand guard over the merchandise...
...minute Exploder opus you'll probably have moved from wondering how anyone could use a Mellotron sound on a rock record at all in 1994 to wondering why that sound doesn't crop up on every new indie release. The post Pepper pileup reaches its peak on "Saturday's Cool," which may be the most excruciatingly self-concious "underground rock" song I've ever heard: the breaks in between the verses are note-for-note or word-for-word quotes from the songs Eggs listened to ten years ago, meaning not cool obscure postpunk records but Blue Oyster Cult...
That mix of confusion and spellbinding tension is Pinter's trademark: it is never quite clear what is happening, but whatever it is, it is urgently important. The menacing mysticism reaches a peak in No Man's Land, a series of drawing-room encounters soured by a barroom aura of impending rough-and- tumble. Like most great playwrights, Pinter keeps writing the same work. No Man's Land is The Homecoming with fancier furniture, Old Times with more recherche recollections, The Birthday Party with a gentler goon squad. It is also, from a playwright generous to actors, the showiest acting...
...admit that the WWF has hit a lull these days, but at its peak nothing compared. Remember the good old days. Forget about baseball's golden years with Dimaggio and Williams, the WWF with the Hulk, Captain Lou and Black Jack Mulligan was supreme...
...bear a child is one of the most powerful forces shaping male-female relationships. Certainly the biggest difference between men and women in their late 30s is that women see a deadline for procreating creeping up and men don't. This difference affects the way women approach work -- their peak childbearing years usually coincide with their make-or-break career years -- as well as the dating game. Instead of looking at men casually, with that insouciance so valued by the Letterman generation, panicky women for whom the biological clock is tolling evaluate each prospect for his potential as a father...