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...weather," spat Lionel Martin, a 33 year old salesman taking the last drag of a cigarette before darting into the Metro to escape the chilly drizzle. "Look at this - more clouds, more damp, more cold, just like it's been since June. Talk about an été pourri...
...Parisians would take issue with Martin's disgusted description of the city's été pourri - or rotten summer - except perhaps to contest the notion that the capital even experienced one. Indeed, 2007 will be remembered as the year without a summer - the pourriest in 30 years, and second dreariest in the past half century. Monday's forecast (rain, highs of 63 degrees) was rather typical of the season, which dumped down nearly three times the amount of rain as you'd expect to find during an average June-August period. According to French press reports, temperatures only reached...
...pourri: "Hop-Frog," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amantillado," "The Raven," and "The Bells," in any good anthology, Edgar Allan Poe. By the Master of Disaster, the Big Daddy of the Supersonic P-P-Pulse Rate. Each piece is guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poeportion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let 'er rrrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors...
...HUTV, Harvard's closed-circuit cable television. The cable is the ward of the telecommunications branch of the Harvard Office of Information Technology (OIT). Right now two student shows are being broadcast live over the cable weekly. One program, Noon Hits, which got rolling last fall, is a pot pourri of news, entertainment and university issues. It is broadcast on Thursdays from OIT's Video Production Center in the depths of the Kresge building on the Medical School campus...
...themselves and demeaning animals. Many married couples who are unwilling or unable to have children adopt animals instead, embarking on a quasi-parental relationship without the responsibilities and hazards involved in child rearing. "If your romance is going to the dogs," suggests a pet-food-industry publication called Pet Pourri, "you might try a dog to save it." In fact, there are countless cases in which a couple's rivalry for a pet's affection-or occasionally even its sexual favors-ends in divorce, and often a custody battle for the animal...