Word: souks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these caffeinated rendezvous take place make cheap dives look hospitable by comparison. I know these places all to well, since my significant other is as inveterate a coffee-drinker as I am an anti-coffee complainer. The most prominent Square dealer of coffee is Au Bon Pain. This bustling souk is an appropriate center for the vortex of madness that is Harvard Square. Placing an order here is like snatching food at a U.N. relief center; rather than a line, ABP's organizing principle is a mob, attended to by several semi-competent cashiers. If you've ever wondered where...
...bright, wearyingly busy covers are increasingly and (for this writer, who misses the sedate Cape Cod cottage exteriors) inexplicably monopolized by Art Spiegelman's relentlessly contemporary artwork. The screaming covers are a tacit capitulation to the dictates of commerce, increasingly reflective of the need to compete in that bustling souk known as Out Of Town News...
...countdown to a finale has begun, and almost everyone here seems to know it, hostages and hoteliers, the men in the souk, the women in black abayahs, % the few young dancers left in the discotheques. The tension is evident in the conversation of Iraqi ministers, at one moment fevered and passionate, the next dazed and even depressed. It surfaces in the frustration of the businessman who cannot comprehend that "an Arab solution" is not enough for the rest of the world. It stares out from the eyes of the mother whose sons have just been discharged from eight years...