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The man in white.(Short story)
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Harvard Review
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December 1, 2007
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- Goodman, Richard
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In 1975, I was thirty years old, living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and fairly miserable. I was at loose ends, in one of those becalmed times we have in our lives, not knowing what I wanted to do. I hated Cambridge. Maybe that was because I was working at the Spaghetti Emporium as a waiter. The Spaghetti Emporium was, how shall I put it, a cavernous restaurant in a basement off Harvard Square that served fourth-rate food--spaghetti, obviously, with various uninspired sauces--in dingy, clamorous surrondings to a highly demanding clientele.
The restaurant was cheap in every way you can imagine, but the most inventive way was with entertainment. There wasn't much of it, but ...
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The Boston Globe;
April 2, 1995 ;
Howard Manly, Globe Staff;
787 words
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June 24, 2005 ;
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Alternative service will use Back Door; Women mix religious backgrounds...
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January 15, 2005 ;
MARY NEVANS-PEDERSON;
498 words
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BACK DOOR.(SPORT)
Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);
May 12, 2007 ;
787 words
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Official urges suspension of Back Door license
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September 16, 1998 ;
Anonymous;
787 words
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GAA: Back door system to get the thumbs-up.(Sport)
The Mirror (London, England);
October 26, 1998 ;
KEYS, Colm;
533 words
...THE GAA will vote to keep the back door system in hurling at next Saturday's...which served them so well this year the back door system, which permits the beaten provincial...are putting forward a motion for the back door system to be carried for another four...
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back door
The Oxford American College Dictionary;
28 words
...back door • n. the door or entrance at the back of a building. • adj. (also backdoor ) [ attrib. ] (of an activity) clandestine; underhanded: backdoor private deals.
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Robeson gets in back door to stop King
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January 23, 1988 ;
Bill Figel;
280 words
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Back Door opening eyes to young blues guitarist.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald;
October 23, 2007 ;
Gottlieb, Jed;
423 words
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Royals at last take care of back-door blues.(SPORT)
Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);
July 23, 2007 ;
787 words
...Byline: Frank Roche FOR some counties, the back door has opened up a whole new window of opportunity...the next five summers all culminated in back door misadventures. And now, finally, those...Sunday. Sligo is the draw coveted by every back door bandit, Kerry and Tyrone supposedly ...
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Biophysical Journal;
June 1, 2004 ;
Lawson, J David; Pate, Edward; Rayment, Ivan; Yount, Ralph G;
787 words
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Jean Lagouarde, 80 Founder of Chez Jean restaurant
The Boston Globe;
March 22, 1991 ;
110 words
...Jean-Baptiste Lagouarde, founder of the Chez Jean restaurant near Harvard Square, died of cancer Tuesday at...Jean-Pierre of Cambridge, who succeeded him as the manager of Chez Jean in 1987. A funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. tomorrow in...
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Straw accused of 'back door' plot over EU treaty.
The Daily Mail (London, England);
June 8, 2005 ;
483 words
......introduce the EU constitution 'by the back door'. Days after it was rejected in the French...thinking about how to go ahead by the back door,' said a spokesman for the British No...constitution, or bits of it, through the back door. 'We were promised a say.... I don't...
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The back door can open for unlucky Armagh
Belfast Telegraph;
June 21, 2007 ;
John Campbell;
365 words
......expected to make progress through the back door route. Should Dublin lose to Offaly in...Sunday of September this year via the back door route. And Meath, following their two...Tyrone won the All Ireland title via the back door.
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INVESTIGATION UNDER WAY; QUINCY BLAST SENDS MAN FLYING THROUGH BACK DOOR;...
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;
June 29, 2006 ;
Robert Sears; ROBERT SEARS;
312 words
......it hurled a Quincy Point man out his back door and across the yard. Robert Donelan...ground and he had been blown out the back door," Ramos said. "The house seemed to lift...light from the sun and ran towards the back door with my brother," she said. Donelan suffered...
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