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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speaking of ganga, the night atmosphere in Negril has quite a different feel. The beach at Negril fills with beach bums, hustlers, and prostitutes who, mixed with the tourists, listen to reggae and puff joints, a scene more than one suburban teenager has imagined while listening to Marley or Jimmy Cliff. The most ubiquitous dealer on the beach goes by the name of Doctor Fabulous. "Da Doctor" is a self-assured smooth talker, a "Rastafarian who smoke da ganga anywhere, anytime." Along with his potentsmelling crop, Fabulous deals out lines like "Da doctor needs his patient...
Wally himself, who opened the bar over 50 years ago, passed away only a few months ago. The legacy he left to the Boston jazz scene cannot be underestimated and, as he listens to Armstrong and Gillespie in Heaven, he can be certain that his time on earth was well spent...
...Final Clubs aren't really your scene, try your luck in another meet market. The Office of Career Services and Harvard Student Agencies are putting on the 17th Annual Career Forum Chat with representatives from more than 120 companies who sweat you hardcore. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Gordon Track and Tennis Center, 495-3030. FREE...
...ageless melodrama in all its florid glory. This scene, from Louis Feuillade's 10-part serial Les Vampires, was shot in 1915, the year of The Birth of a Nation. D.W. Griffith's epic, a masterpiece of film form, creaks today. But Les Vampires, with thrill upon stunt upon criminal chicanery, is as modern as Rush Hour or The X Files. In Waterbearer Films' ravishing 6-hr. 40-min. video edition, restored by David Shepard with its color tinting and long-lost intertitles, Les Vampires is revealed as the prototype and apotheosis of every hurtling action film and devious crime...
Steve Lopez's report on the Million Pound March, a demonstration in support of the rights of overweight people [AMERICAN SCENE, Sept. 14], was a trite, meanspirited diatribe against fat people. His thoughtless reiteration of every stereotyped gibe used against the obese is the reason the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance exists. LESLIE C. WARREN Ellicott City...