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...prefer to get your groove on in a classier setting, stop by the BSA’s Renaissance Ball at the Hyatt Regency in Boston. This year’s theme is “an exotic escape,” which sounds like it could be the name of a spa or the tagline on a bottle of fruity perfume. Maybe the dance floor will smell like a floral medley with a hint of tangerine. Doubtful...
...action: “The world must be peopled!” Obviously Harvard students need some help with their game, because every seat in the Eliot Library was filled. Although there were certainly senior thesis writers who worship dear Will, many audience members were just looking for a classier Thursday night than Stein Club (which was appropriately dubbed last Thursday “ValenStein”). One audience member was even overheard saying, “We’re so cultured. Oh my god, we’re showing up at this thing...
...stuff that goes with it,” said HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin. The feast, taking place from noon to 3 p.m., will feature traditional Thanksgiving fare, vegetarian entrees, and a selection of pastas. The annual dinners rotate among Dunster, Adams and Quincy Houses, according to Martin. Pricier and classier options in the Square on Thanksgiving day include Henrietta’s Table at the Charles Hotel and Harvest Restaurant on Brattle Street—and, of course, munchkins at Dunkin’ Donuts until 5 p.m. Some students will be spending their time on a noble cause and saving...
...those interested in a classier package and more novelistic read, Vertical, Inc., publisher of the Buddha series by revered manga author Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), has just released his single volume Ode to Kirihito (825 pages; $25). Best known for his stories on themes of the power of love and karmic justice, here Tezuka has created a sophisticated medical horror story, with so much perversity that it may permanently change the master's American reputation as the Japanese Walt Disney. Though it retains Tezuka's core interest in the karmic consequences of immoral behavior, in this particular book he seems...
...wartime Navy at 17, did a hitch on a merchant freighter, played burlesque houses for four years (often with his then-wife, stripper-singer Honey Harlowe), worked in the lowest reaches of exploitation films (his producer also financed Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda). And when he graduated to classier venues, that salty vocabulary echoed in his head...