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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replicas of the Quad to protest our being Quaded, to request that Harvard divest from itself for letting the Quad get into bad condition. In our "Statement of Policy" we wish to stress that our premise for our demands is that Harvard has let much of the Quad become rundown, has threatened to cut-off badly needed renovations for lack of funds, and has made that Quad situation much worse than it already...
...turf over which the Vaughnum cousins are scuffling is Honeysuckle Hill, a rundown mansion with 25 acres of barren land. Cousin King (Stephen Root), the conniver, and his sugarcoated dragon of a wife Clairice (Jane Murray) want to raze the house and put up a "Christian shopping center." The twins, Ruth (Pat Nesbit) and Raymond (Ray Dooley), resent that plan but do not want to move back in either. Miss Anna (Lizan Mitchell), a black family retainer whom everyone believes to be an illegitimate child of Grandfather Vaughnum's, feels that the house is rightly hers. Bobby (Fritz Sperberg...
...pops a quarter in a motel room Magic Fingers machine. Sprawled out on an unmade queen-size bed, dressed in faded jeans and a trailworn denim jacket, and nursing a tin of day-old Skoal and a bottle of worm-blessed Mexican tequila, Shepard rides the bed like a rundown rodeo star, and when he throws his girl May a particularly wistful smile, all the humor and pathos of Shepard's writing comes shining clean through...
...Friday--Faced with plunging advertising revenues, The Crimson renames itself 'Harvard Today' and begins publication in four-color, four-section format. Included is a full-page Harvard weather map, showing atmospheric conditions everywhere from the School of Public Health to Harvard Black Rock Forest, and a rundown of the top news house by house. Says actress Joan Collins, "Harvard Today's Life section separates the facts from the gossip, and the men from the boys...
...side, although the Square boasts a good number of bars, you'll probably want to travel to Boston if you want to see live bands and dancing. In general, if it's environs you're after, you picked a pretty good place to spend four years. Here's a rundown of what's going down in the Square and whereabouts. Have...