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...much else has changed. Wide streets curve around British colonial mansions. Bogyoke Market (great handicrafts, particularly lacquerware) sits beside animposing Victorian rail station. Downtown is filled with Italianate architecture covered in tropical mold. Near Trader's Hotel, cinemas have been allowed to reopen, offering plush 1950s-style seating and the latest releases from Hollywood for the period price of 25 cents...
...Beautiful Girls); the tearful recollection of "Rolling With the Homies" in Clueless; Jamie Bell dancing through the streets of Durham as "A Town Called Malice" plays; Dustin Hoffman whistling "Mrs. Robinson"(!) to himself in The Graduate; Winona Ryder and gang dancing to "My Sharona" in the gas-station convenience store (Reality Bites); John Cusack holding up the boombox (of course); Michelle Pfeiffer singing "Making Whoopee" on the piano; seasons changing as Hugh Grant walks down the Portobello Road to "Ain't No Sunshine" (Notting Hill); the bittersweet use of "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" in Butch Cassidy...
...personality that current members of WHRB work to preserve is one that has stayed relatively steady ever since the station's incorporation...
...station's most famous tradition--the "orgies" which highlight the music of one composer or subject over one to 10 days of Harvard reading period--began in 1943 before WHRB even existed...
...latest addition to the WHRB tradition is the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, which WCRB, Boston's other classical music station, dropped last year. Aiese says the station has won over many new area listeners with the move...