Word: walks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guys. The I-AA teams have it right, and every other major college sport has it right--let the kids decide on the field who should walk away with one of American sports' most prestigious honors...
When I first moved here from London I wondered why no one laughed at my jokes. One potential explanation was that they had stopped being funny. Another had to do with cultural difference: over here the simple fact of failure is not, as it is in Britain, considered amusing. Walk into any London pub, for example, and you'll find at least one group of drinkers vying for laughs with stories of the day's disasters. Try the same tactic to amuse a group of friends in a Cambridge bar and one is greeted with expressions of surprise, confusion...
...another flavor of what I've been calling "underground rock," and 10 or 12 that I read "religiously"; the few zines I'm going to talk about here are distinguished not so much for their slavish reflections of my particular taste, but for their widespread availability (i.e. you could walk into Newbury Comics or In Your Ear or even Tower Records and buy one); their breadth (i.e. there are lots of bands and records covered in each issue); and their high entertainment value...
...area's most acclaimed restaurant is the The Elephant Walk, serving traditional French and Cambodian cuisine to an eclectic and nonnative crowd. Masters expresses anger at a comment she heard about the restaurant: "Finally there's a place to go in Union Square,"--a comment that demonstrates the gap between those who seek the cosmpolitan and those who are sick...
...found that a very insulting and snobby comment," she said. She criticizes The Elephant Walk or being overpriced and crowded, and suggests the Star of India as a tasty--and less pretentious--alternative for dining...