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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true that there are some aspects of the Caribbean that do look like that, especially the parts set up for American tourists," says Simpson, who grew up in Trinidad. "But when you get into the real culture, it's nothing like that. It's not like we sit in our homes drinking pina coladas with little umbrellas...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In HDS' festive meals, what are the ingredients of a cultural experience? | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...true that there are some aspects of the Caribbean that do look like that, especially the parts set up for American tourists," says Simpson, who grew up in Trindad. "But when you get into the real culture, it's nothing like that. It's not like we sit in our homes drinking pina coladas with little umbrellas...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing With Your Food | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...disorienting at first. Auditioning actors freaked me out, I couldn't deal with it. They'd come in, and I felt so bad for them, because I'd been through it myself. So they'd come in, and I found myself apologizing, and saying, "Where would you like to sit? Are you comfortable in that chair?" So, it took me a while to realize, well, I'm the boss, everyone's looking to me to tell them what to do, and I have to just step up and do that...

Author: By Richard Ho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Back to Woodstock | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...forced amiability at other Senior Bar events. This is no fault of the kind people who organize and publicize them, but more the product of my own inflated expectations. Perhaps I was imagining something more along the lines of the 50th reunion of the French Resistance: We'd sit on the terrace of an old cafe, trading war stories and examining our scars, laughing about how we'd beat the odds and made it out alive. To my disappointment, I found no such sense of esprit de corps at Senior Bar. Our shared destiny was our diploma, and that...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: What I Saw at the Senior Bar | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...with an expanded set of listings. This week, we've dedicated six of our rollicking 20 pages to keeping you and yours appraised of hot happenings in Boston and Cambridge. This week, the anti-social, the misanthropic, the rather strange and others like me will not have to sit home, just because everyone else has scheduled their lives two weeks in advance. Fear not a lack of funds! We've made a special effort to include free events. And this listings spirit has even spread to the rest of the magazine, in which former ed TJ resurfaces from senior spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Look No Further | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

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