Word: rat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shops (J. F. Olsson & Co., The Bookcase, Reading International) that succumb to high rents, only to be replaced by trendy yuppie huts (The Body Shop, Origins, WordsWorth Abridged). "The Shops by Harvard Yard" is only the latest installment. And every time another landlord drops out of the Harvard Square rat race, we compose another elegy to a neighborhood whose character is quickly fading...
...Somebody's trying to poon the `Poon," Dave said. David J. Kennedy `93, writer, orator, and effete ne'er-do-well, was standing before me in one of his tiffs. He let out a huff of indignation, mussing his debate jock/skate rat bangs. He handed me a crude flyer which he had ripped off a kiosk. It read, "Come to the Harvard Lampoon's Fourth Annual Head of the Charles Prep School Open House. Refreshments served, admission tips offered. Just knock!" Beneath, a crude map invited every Groton, Exeter and Andover refugee to beat a path to our pari-colored...
Representatives of the Cambridge Eviction Free Zone cited previous problems at the Coolidge Place apartments which caught fire. "The severe rat problems at the building" led residents to demand reduced rents at a Zone-sponsored hearing last Wednesday, according to Jean Charles...
...never saw the local spin on this issue in the national press. While scientists were talking of hantaviruses carried in rat feces, a local columnist swore that the victims shared a common thread: the feds had sprayed a small marijuana patch near Farmington with herbicides but delayed chopping it down and burning it until the next day. When the Feds came back they found the crop harvested for presumably local consumption...
Ooooh! Love to love you, baby. A smarmy Sammy Davis Jr. put the big squeeze on Nixon at the G.O.P. convention, symbolizing the Rat Pack's wholesale desertion of the Democratic Party ship...