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...unwritten rule of Harvard storage is that the person who piled over twenty boxes in the doorway will not show up until Registration. The same person will also have two sofas and a desk smack in the middle of the furniture room...

Author: By John E. Stafford, | Title: A Dubious Welcome--to the Quad | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...killed?" an angry boy demands of his uncle). But the show scores with scenes of luminous originality and emotional truth: an improvised dance of grief by the widow; a jail-cell encounter between the cop and a man arrested for his brother's murder, in which hate runs smack into pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtown Pleasures | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...classic "It floats." In this case, it glows. Timex introduced a dial that lights up in a commercial so droll that some Saturday Night Live viewers took it for an SNL send-up. Sinatra croons "Strangers in the night . . ." as a smitten firefly hovers over the sparkling watch. Smack! A huge hand suddenly swats at the radiant suitor but misses him, hitting the watch. The disconsolate firefly takes off. The object of his affections "takes a licking and keeps on ticking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Best of 1992 | 1/4/1993 | See Source »

...Bears. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 492-0082. Thinking Fellers Local Union #282, Sun City Girls, and Cul DeSac on Thursday, Nov. 5 (18+). Laughing Hyena, Smack Mellon, Spore, and Gaunt on Friday, Nov. 63. Olivz, Disco King, Riley's Field, and Falling August on Saturday, Nov. 7. P>Boy Meets Girls. Dress to impress. Cash bar. Sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Korean Student Association. Boston Marriott in Cambridge located at the Kendall Square T. Friday, Nov. 6 from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. $10 at the door; $8 in advance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

EVEN WHILE THE 102ND CONGRESS RACED TO ADjourn for the campaign finale, the Democrats somehow found time to stick controversial issues smack into President Bush's face. They didn't win many fights, but they did raise the discomfort level in the White House to record levels. To the Republicans' collective relief, the family-leave bill died on Wednesday when the House failed to override Bush's veto of the legislation, which the White House opposed as antibusiness. On Friday the House left Bush's abortion "gag rule" in place, again failing to muster the necessary two-thirds vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Potatoes | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

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