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...Helen Murphy-MacDonald-King, a pub singer and feisty accordionist who gave birth to 11 children fathered by various husbands and boyfriends. In her signature miniskirts, fishnet stockings and spiked heels, Ma is an unmistakable Southie presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pride and Prejudice | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

What you missed: disco-folk fusion, sweet trombone playing, a funked-out "In the Mood" and good Irish beer. The Humming rocked The Burren, a traditional pub in Davis Square, last Thursday night, outgrooving the Irish band in the next room and sending fans crowding into the street for an acappella encore of "Happy Trails." If this band's name doesn't sound familiar to you now, it will be in the very near future. Playing over 80 shows a year and expecting to put out their own album this spring, The Humming is poised to hit the big time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Humming Takes Flight | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...indebtedness to classical fantasy literature should not overshadow the liberties she takes with the form. Most notably, her wizard world is not at all remote from daily realities. It takes a cyclone to transport Dorothy to Oz. In contrast, Harry can walk a few steps through a London pub near Charing Cross Road and enter Diagon Alley, a wizard shopping bazaar, where he and his classmates meet late each summer to buy school supplies. And getting from there to Hogwarts is a snap; Harry and his friends go to King's Cross Station and board the Hogwarts Express, which departs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...already built McArthur Hall, a large brick building looking onto the Charles toward Cambridge, to house students in the Business School's executive education program. Construction has begun on the new student center, which will house dining and social facilities and perhaps a post office, a game room, a pub, student club offices, University Health Services, a Coop and an auditorium...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard to Pay $40M for Boston Land | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...pub (Britain), hotel (Australia), boozer (Britain, Australia, New Zealand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speaking In Tongues | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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