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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...site was originally used as a clay mine until 1952, which left a deep clay pit...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Dump Succeeds As Park | 10/13/1993 | See Source »

...Shops at Harvard Yard" is not just a marketing agency's half-assed attempt to make us feel upscale. It's meant to make us feel safe. To the dowager from Concord, "Harvard Square" says homeless people, punks in the Pit and the headache of finding parking. "Harvard Yard" says wide, green spaces, tranquility, and the unobstructed fulfillment of the fetishism of commodities. As one frequent patron of the Square put it, "Why not just put a glass dome over the whole thing and call it a fucking mall...

Author: By Christopher Capozzola, | Title: Down with The Shops: A Manifesto | 10/8/1993 | See Source »

WILLIAMSBURG, Va.--Take the two oldest schools in the country and pit them against each other in a game celebrating 100 years of football, and you can't avoid an encounter with ghosts...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Ghosts of Games Past | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...seen it coming, after all. Though Harvard Square constitutes only a few blocks in the city of Cambridge, it has its own neighborhoods. Oona's would do well to avoid lower Brattle, and no one in their right mind would put a Structure or a Motto over by the Pit...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Goodbye Pit, Hello Homeopathy | 9/25/1993 | See Source »

...music itself and took the audience up to new heights. The latter half of the show featured Joel at his classic best. In an amazingly heartfelt "Goodnight Saigon," Joel recaptured his previous energy. (And when, due to a technical glitch, Joel's piano failed to rise from the pit onto the stage, he simply jumped down and played from below...

Author: By Jeannette A. Vargas, | Title: Joel Takes the Garden By Storm Once Again | 9/23/1993 | See Source »

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