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Word: self (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winnebagoes from the Everglades." "Soccer moms drive minivans." "We'll rent expensive cars." "You're along for the ride." Down Utopia Parkway. And who doesn't want to go there? There, songs are short, sweet, snack-pack panegyrics to travel agents, laser shows, summer and proms. After their self-titled debut album Fountains of Wayne (which featured the radio hit "Radiation Vibe") was hailed as one of 1996's best albums, the winsome songwriting team of Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger returns with a14-track album about being either lost or on the go. It is fed with the Byrds...

Author: By By PHUA Mei pin, | Title: Album Review: Utopia Pkwy by Fountains of Wayne | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...shlocky interactive wedding (with, admitedly, an infinitely-better-than-average wedding band performance by Harvard's own B-Side), and the show's pinnacle--a hilarious gender-bending, mimed depiction of Elsa and Lohengrin's wedding night (performed with just the right mix of sincerity and tounge-in-cheek self-awareness and downright bravery by Jordin Ruderman and Joseph Subotnik '00) and you'll begin to understand the aesthetics of King Kong...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mixing a Tape of B-Side and an Ape of Wagner, Hip-Hop Rocks the Opera | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...someone else, or why Alison goes back to Jack in "Great Sex," (the title refers to only a part of her motivation for returning). We feel their uncertainties--they don't really know why they do these things either. Adams' masterfully portrays a group of characters in search of self-knowledge. The stories that result are unvarnished and honest, and make for a deeply satisfying read...

Author: By Tatiana Gonzalez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Maude: Geriatric Vixens | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...someone else, or why Alison goes back to Jack in "Great Sex,"(the title refers to only a part of her motivation for returning). We feel their uncertainties--they don't really know why they do these things either. Adams' masterfully portrays a group of characters in search of self-knowledge. The stories that result are unvarnished and honest, and make for a deeply satisfying read...

Author: By Tatiana Gonzalez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Maud: Geriatric Vixens | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

Collins, who was one of the first female officers in the U.S. military and a self-made multimillionaire, altered her will following the April 20 announcement that Harvard and Radcliffe intended to merge...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Announces Gifts Since Agreement | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

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