Word: yesteryears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miniature paintings of cherubs in pastel colors decorate the walls. The menu has been toned down along with the decor. The prices have taken a nosedive, and the cuisine has evolved from trendy, Italiannate-Mediterraanean-inspired to Botticelli-traditional Italian. Fortunately, there is some continuity with the Alloro of yesteryear. The quality of the food remains superior. Simplified, but still delicious...
...take Winthrop. A rather cozy dining hall, being half submerged underground, it feels small and intimate. The tables are all squeezed up against one another, demanding a rather petite student to safely navigate to a chair with laden tray. And in the soap opera social scene of Winthrop of yesteryear, the cast of characters were designed to wiggle their way between the tables. However randomization has brought football players to Winthrop. And they simply don't fit. They can't get to the seats, and stand around holding their trays, seeming all the more hulking in the small dining hall...
...unstable, unloyal, technologically isolating world, it's the solid values, sturdy connections and safe harbors of yesteryear that resonate. Dinner parties are better than dance clubs, and settling down beats swinging free. "I'm amazed at how quickly I went from the bar culture to intimate dinner parties," says Mark Toft, 26, a writer who lives in St. Louis, Mo., with his wife Beth. "Nesting means you get to trade a crazy public space for a place where you can define...
...center also serves breakfast and lunch to seniors with prices reminiscient of yesteryear...
What to do when one student's viewpoint (in this case, Hack's strict ideas about sexual modesty) conflicts with the university's desire to toss all views into an educational blender? Unlike students of yesteryear, who pushed for diversity with scruffy demonstrations on behalf of minorities, Hack and four other Orthodox Jews have chosen a thoroughly contemporary method of attack: mount a p.r. campaign...