Word: rackes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Someone forgot to tell Allison Feaster that basketball season was over. Although Harvard (23-5, 12-2 Ivy) ended its season two weeks ago with a loss to Final Four participant Arkansas in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Feaster has continued to rack up perhaps the most notable individual honors of her illustrious career...
...manages quite so well. The Trident Bookseller and Cafe, despite its earnest endeavors (colored chalk on blackboard slates announce the various esoteric sections; a sign in the window reads "Bonsai Trees for Sale"), cannot escape the implications of its gentrified location. Next to the incense and candles, the magazine rack presents yards of glossy new weeklies which the consumer is not even allowed to bring into the cafe. More egregiously, the cafe features a non-smoking section...
...room, a bearded man in his early 30smoves slowly in a circle, practicing a cut shotfrom every diamond on the table. Two Latinopatrons in work-stained t-shirts speak softly inSpanish and slam home stripes and solids inongoing games of eight-ball. Next to them, anotherLatino man plays rack after rack of straight pool,while his older companion sits in a corner,silently watching him clear the table. "Even amale prostitute runs out of energy," Mike snickerswhen one of his regular customer's shots comes upshort of its desired destination. As the lastshadows of twilight fade in the parking...
...these men, the sun is a much smaller white ball, and the planets number 15, not nine. They pass their time in Sully's, the Brighton Billiard Club, the Rack, Pockets and in the Boston Billiard Club--just a few of the urban oases which dot the metropolitan landscape of Boston. From unknown to acclaimed, from tiny capsules of kitsch to mammoth monsters of mahogany, these billiard halls are loaded with personality, and though they may be divided by money, by class and by style, they are united by the game, and the game never changes...
...adage that salespeople have quoted since the onset of commercial marketing, "The customer is always right." Shoppers like to try things on at a relaxed pace and see how they feel and fit: if one item is too itchy and another too tight, we put them back on the rack and start over at the next store. But try this method while looking for classes during Harvard shopping week, and you'll end up with three Cores you've never heard of and, if you're lucky, an anthropology course...