Word: pinocchio
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Sure, the Square has its Au Bon Pain and its 31 Flavors. But all in all, Harvard Square prefers Elsie and Tommy to Wendy. It prefers Pinocchio's to Jack...
James presents white racism as equally laughable in a scene in which Walt Disney calls for the extermination of Blacks. Disney's gruesome speech combines echoes of Pinocchio, Martin Luther King Jr. and the KKK: "I wished upon a star--that one day wondrous shopping mall, beneath the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slave owners would dine on the sons of former salves, secure in the knowledge that their silverware was safe from theft...
...first. "It'sokay to be upset," I told myself as she and I werehaving our Talk. "But stay on your feet." Sensingthat she was determined to break it off and wastalking just to smooth over the rough edges, Ileft just in time to get a slice at Pinocchio's.Later a friend of Amy's told me that she had said:"Everything seemed to be going okay and he justgot up and left...
Which is not to say I hadn't enjoyed my first year. For me it meant falling in love with Pinocchio's pizza, Bright Hockey Center, WZLX and many, many now-forgotten girls (sorry, women). And I had met the standard cast of kooks, oddballs and freaks that make Harvard interesting...
...European traditions. Wine may be as mother's milk to the French, but they will find only "mocktails" at the restaurants inside the park; they must get their hand stamped at the turnstile, walk a few yards to the nearest hotel bar and drown their rancor there. The Pinocchio and Star Tours rides, among others, provide French dialogue, but visitors who have no English will miss the verbal nuances that lend the park its impish...