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...When Frank Sinatra was filming Von Ryan's Express in Cortina and Calalzo in 1962, he hazed hotel staff with demands such as 200 fresh eggs served on a silver tray. (An egg fight ensued, and the wallpaper was ruined.) The hotel was also the setting for The Pink Panther~ with Peter Sellers and David Niven in 1963. But the rot gradually set in: wealthy patrons invested in their own chalets, and the Cristallo's owners sold it to a hotel chain, which closed it down in 1978. Before the Gualandis reopened the Cristallo for business, they commissioned a painstaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snow-Business Legend | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

...though the penis-shaped cookie refreshments were sweeter than they were risqué, the empty tray of condoms at the door proved that there could be good things for those who come...

Author: By Julie Y. Rhee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Debauchery Comes Again | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...cold day in Ottawa last week, Stephen Harper sauntered into the fifth-floor cafeteria in Parliament's Centre Block and ordered a cheeseburger, a Coke and a Caesar salad. He loaded the food onto his tray and, as he does most lunchtimes, headed back to his office. As ever, Harper projected the image of a cerebral, shy, slightly standoffish man, a politician who has never seemed quite at home in boisterous Ottawa. Yet there was one thing changed in his routine: next to Harper stood two bulky plainclothes bodyguards. You get them when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Meaning of Harper | 1/30/2006 | See Source »

...printed on several products intended for distribution to campus groups. These include lip balms, which Travia’s office will give to students and to athletic coaches, who will be encouraged to provide them to athletes. Other such products include Nalgene water bottles, post-it notes, and tray liners to be used in Annenberg Hall. Travia said the statistics printed on these items “are not messages that preach abstinence” from alcohol consumption, but rather “messages of low-risk, normative, protective behavior.” His office also plans to begin training...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lip Balm, Post-It Notes To Spread Alcohol Stats | 1/13/2006 | See Source »

Every artist eventually finds his or her ideal medium. Manet had canvas; Duchamp painted on glass. Certain Lowell house seniors find inspiration in more mundane rectangles of plastic—their designs and text have recently graced many of the Lowell house dining hall trays. Brendan S. Millstein ’06, one of the artist-culprits, is known for textual art in the postmodernist vein. His trademark is the insertion of the word “tray” into an unrelated saying. “April Showers bring Tray Flowers” and the Shakesperean...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brendan S. Millstein ’06 | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

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