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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Square residents called drumming "a worm on the brain" and complained about its effects on mental health. But street musicians complained of cultural elitism, bias and censorship, and warned that when percussion is suppressed, the Square's eclectic atmosphere will dampen...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Of Drums, Bells, Bills, Waves, Whales, Doughnuts and Donations | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

Square residents called drumming "a worm on the brain" and complained about its effects on mental health. But street musicians complained of cultural elitism, bias and censorship, and warned that when percussion is suppressed, the Square's eclectic atmosphere will dampen...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Of Drums, Bells, Bills, Waves, Whales, Doughnuts and Donations | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

Harvard Square residents say they will gain peace and quiet in their homes if the Council lowers the acceptable decibel levels. As it is, one resident complained, the drumming is like "a worm on the brain," which "over time can kind of affect some one's mental health...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council Debates Street Musician Drums | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

Altman may be a genius, but linear analytical rigor is not his thing. He lives and works amid a genial hurly-burly, with room for all kinds of stray inspirations and serendipitous touches to worm their way into his movies. What Altman pursues is not looseness for its own sake, but surprise -- both for himself and for moviegoers: he didn't know beforehand the tics and shadings performers like Lyle Lovett and Whoopi Goldberg (who play police officers) would bring to their characters, for instance, and the movie-within-a-movie surprise he gives the audience near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Player Once Again: ROBERT ALTMAN | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

This is scarier: viruses have a nasty habit of getting out of control of the virus-makers. Three years ago, a Cornell hacker futzing around with his PC accidentally unleashed the Internet Worm, a pseudo-virus that stunned its creator by running roughshod across the country...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The End of Unprotected Interfacing | 3/6/1992 | See Source »

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