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...reasonably priced--almost everything is under $10. Oldies-but-goodies fill the shelves: disappearing ink, joy buzzers, whoopee cushions, two headed nickels, trick decks of cards, finger traps and snakes that pop out of mixed nut cans. They're joined by the less-clicheed instant worms, fake spilled nail polish, a hugely popular rubber brain, fake parking tickets and life-like stick-on faucets...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: jack attack | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

Fifty-four staff members, as well as 15work-study students, maintain close attention todetail. Maids polish brass wall fixtures in whiteruffled aprons and black uniforms, servers hoverat the elbows of the diners and groundkeepers cliphedges outside the window...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Salmon, Sherry and Tradition | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...Instead we are asking that students keep an eye on the big picture our educational institution is embedded in, ask what this education is for and about after all, and participate in the broader community in any way possible. Or, at the very least, that they stop trying to polish the walls of the ivory tower and pretend we can be both uber-privileged and righteous...

Author: By Abigail R. Branch, | Title: Stuck in the Tower | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

Just before midnight on a Saturday, Erica Morehouse, 18, pulls into the McDonald's lot at the Roxford exit of the Golden State Freeway. She's in a nail-polish-red 1989 Camaro with her friend Lisa Montes, 17. It's Thelma and Louise right here in hot-rod central, and they'll race anyone foolish enough to take them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Dean All Over Again | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Cream Bash atmosphere of Grafton has gotten stale, head toward Winthrop Street and find a place that truly merits its name. In fact, everything from the tablecloths to the Blues Brothers poster and the server's nail polish is blue...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: hoppin | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

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