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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dead assemble to discuss life. One of the dead, a woman named Emily, barters with the play's narrator for the chance to watch herself relive one day of her life, her twelfth birthday. The experience drains, even tortures her, and she shakes much the way we shiver when watching films of John Kennedy. Not only is Emily helpless to change the past, but her warm memories of childhood are blown cold as she watches her own young ghost let priceless moments lapse unnoticed...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Honor Thy Father | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

LeBoutillier, it seems, is a rather sheltered sort. "In a physical sense, the 'Square' appears normal." he writes. "However, under no circumstances can the term 'normal' be applied to Harvard Square." It's all part of the same phenomenon. Gays make him "shiver." Hare Krishna are hypocrites...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Harvard Hates LeBoutillier | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...weeks to learn how to operate, but you must know the basics of astronomy," says Bell. He is whispering as the display goes on, and his tone suggests an acolyte trying not to disturb a service. Every time he does a show, he admits, he feels a shiver synapsing down his spine. "It's something I cannot explain exactly. You have to work to keep a sense of perspective. Sometimes you feel like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Starry Road to Twelfth Night | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...trouble came when I tried to put the pack back on. One arm wouldn't move. No matter how hard I tried and concentrated it remained immobile and useless. And the other couldn't bend enough to be of any use. Meanwhile I'd started to shiver uncontrollably--the first symptom of hypothermia. I jumped up and down trying to keep warm. I couldn't laugh, the irony was too bitter--I'd made it across the stream, but to what...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Hell and High Water | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

LeBoutillier, it seems, is a rather sheltered sort. "In a physical sense, the 'Square' appears normal," he writes. "However, under no circumstances can the term 'normal' be applied to Harvard Square." It's all part of the same phenomenon. Gays make him "shiver." Hare Krishna are hypocrites...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Harvard Hates LeBoutillier | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

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