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...restaurant is not that big, with maybe a dozen or so tables, but it took quite a while for the first skewer-wielding waiter to come to our table. So we decided to make a foray to the buffet spread instead. There were salad items on one end and dining hallstyle vats of unidentified soupy stuff on the other. No sign of labels. Rather inconvenient for the uninitiated. But with a bit of gastronomic guesswork I was able to match most of the dishes with the items listed on the menu. The star of the spread was definitely the Beef...

Author: By Nissara Horayangura, | Title: Stick This on Your Skewer And Eat It | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...festival ends with a trio of shorts that both exalt and skewer classical music and opera. "Rhapsody Rabbit," "The Rabbit of Seville," and "What's Opera, Doc?" are wonderful, if skewed, introductions to music and theater...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: The Story of One Rabbit's Struggle | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

This same dynamic has dominated our campus press as well. Mentally exhausted by turgid texts, most students read about campus affairs for relaxation instead of serious engagement. Style dominates substance as journalists and editorialists skewer for the sake of skewering. This trend been demonstrated occasionally in the case of the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition, an organization trashed by several commentators who seized on its minor peccadilloes while ignoring its larger promise. In the midst of a relentlessly critical and uncooperative press, student groups ranging from the Ethnic Studies Action Committee to the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Alliance have found it difficult...

Author: By Frank A. Pasquale, | Title: The Conservatism of Frivolity | 10/3/1995 | See Source »

Lenna Georgopoulos '97 wows the rest of the group by pushing a skewer through a balloon without popping...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Summer Science Allows Harvard Students, Cambridge Kids to Play With Slime and Sound | 8/4/1995 | See Source »

Finally, Morazes gets the bamboo skewer through the balloon without popping...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Summer Science Allows Harvard Students, Cambridge Kids to Play With Slime and Sound | 8/4/1995 | See Source »

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