Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evening and perhaps the most famous one-act piece by British playwright Harold Pinter, love is little more than an elaborate role-playing game. As a happily average British middle class couple, Barlow Adamson and Marie Larkin move carefully around their disgustingly perfect home (constructed with aggravating blandness--lemon yellow sofa draping and all--by stage designer Jeff Gardiner) pouring drinks for one another and speaking in formal semi-monotones. They love each other, or so they claim, but their marriage is sexless. It is only when they meet in secret during the day, Barlow disguised as a rogue lover...
Although some traditions have come and gone since the band's founding in 1919, others have remained with particular tenacity: Serenading Yale and Princeton at two in the morning; yellow chrysanthemums at football games; playing "Fair Harvard" each year at commencement; partying with the University of Pennsylvania Band; planning each week's show; the march down to Soldiers Field and the many pranks and rivalries...
...tradition found its roots decades ago. Because the Saturday football game of the 50s was the highlight of the week's social activity on campus, Harvard men would bring dates to the packed stadium for the weekly event. Band members gave their girlfriends yellow chrysanthemums to wear, indicating that their dates were playing with the band...
...Flipping back to the front, Schor points out the warning label on the cover. Outlined in fluorescent yellow, it reads: "Due to mature content, parental consent suggested for readers under 18." The warning reflects the suggestiveness of the half-clothed models, and perhaps refers in large part to one photo of a topless girl. Above the label on the cover, an Abercrombie-outfitted, buff young man stares through thick black-rimmed glasses, looking decidedly misunderstood sipping from a mug advertising a budget travel agency. The reader is left to his or her own devices to assume that, after spending hundreds...
There, a crimson-colored shark-shaped pinyata with a yellow "H" on its side dangled from a string two union members held between them...