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...Lamont 5th floor–The fourth best deuce in the land is the best jerk in the land. The floor-to-ceiling semi-soundproof walls separating each stall create personal cubicles wherein all sorts of “business” goes down. (For my few loyal fans out there, this is indeed the third straight article in which I’ve referenced beating off in Lamont. That’s real...

Author: By Chris Schnoberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Best Deuce in the Land | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...Just keep the noise down, and no problems,” his roommate today tells him. (Not a problem, according to Mark, who says Currier’s concrete walls are remarkably soundproof...

Author: By Kevin J. Feeney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sadomasochism Comes Out of the Closet | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...post-Friends ensembles, is just smirky thirtysomething kids with $100 haircuts. The show does have a touch for madcap-farce plots based on lies and miscommunications, even if they're a bit farfetched. (The pilot, for instance, requires that you believe the stalls in a women's bathroom are soundproof.) At times you see, as on a disappointing date, the sophisticated adult Coupling could have become. Instead, it sidles up to us in its pleated Dockers, asking lamely, "Do you come here often?" Oh, yes. Once too often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Farce Is Not with Them | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...home state). And it's not the rival Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which despite its gains hasn't yet come up with a coherent plan for economic reform. No, the organization with the most clout these days is an obscure legislative group called the Mediation Committee. Meeting in a soundproof Berlin conference room with no natural light - it's referred to as the Dark Room by pundits - this secretive political council hammers out agreements on legislation that has been adopted by the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, but rejected by the upper house, the Bundesrat. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin's Newest Power | 2/9/2003 | See Source »

...before Hendrix became a rock god. Surprisingly good drawings and watercolors by the teenage Hendrix include witty sketches of Elvis Presley. In the next gallery, video screens, earphones, photographs, posters, costumes and guitars document the Big Four of Hendrix concerts: London, Monterey, Woodstock and the Isle of Wight. A soundproof room offers a full-volume eight-minute extract from a Berkeley concert that includes Voodoo Chile and Johnny B. Goode. And starting Nov. 27, you can see the ultimate Hendrix icon: what's left of the Fender Stratocaster that he famously burned at the Monterey Festival. The annual Mois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Gods to Masters | 11/3/2002 | See Source »

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