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...Super Bowl” was by far the most talked about sporting event, beating out the “World Series” and the “NBA Finals” by a large margin. “Love” has two noticeable peaks on Christmas and Valentine??s Day. Exactly one month after Valentine??s Day, “steak” and “blowjob” see a spike in usage, stemming from the fabled March 14 holiday, “Steak and Blowjob...
...case of conjunctivitis that he blames on goggles he wore during lab. “That was a damper big time,” complains the pink-eyed Daniel E. Farrell ’10. “I couldn’t go near my girlfriend on Valentine??s Day.” All chemistry labs require students to wear goggles, a safety regulation mandated by the American Chemical Society—but Farrell isn’t so sure that students make use of the alcohol-based lens wipes that are meant to protect undergrads from...
Though not as romantic as a candlelit dinner for two, the Magnetic Fields’ concert at the Somerville Theater last Thursday was clearly a Valentine??s Day celebration of sorts, consisting of two impressive sets played to an audience filled with couples. Stephin Merritt, the band’s singer and songwriter, used the occasion to add another layer of irony to his lyrics. Though he was mostly quiet between songs in the first set, Merritt seemed to become more comfortable with stage banter in the second half of the show. “Valentine?...
...Awareness Day) indulging in the traditional rituals of gorging on chocolate and pathetically reflecting on the lack of romance in one’s life. But this year, the Hyperion Shakespeare Company, in collaboration with Eliot House, offered a new way to spare calories and shed tears in their Valentine??s Day inspired First Annual Shakespeare in Love production, an event which, at the very least, sure beat deciphering scenes from “0” with your English 120 TF. The theme of the show was “Courses of True Love: Comic and Tragedy...
Shakespeare has undeniably stood the test of time, but the question remains: Can he stand the test of the ballet? This Valentine??s Day, an endless sea of couples flooded the Wang Theatre for the opening night of the Boston Ballet’s “Romeo and Juliet,” featuring original staging by the legendary South African choreographer John Cranko and Prokofiev’s stunning score. Despite a slow and emotionally unengaged beginning, the performance eventually redeems itself and proves that Shakespeare’s famous “star-cross?...