Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dinner, the baked stuffed mushrooms ($6.25) looked more appetizing on the menu than on the plate. Stuffed with a doughy mix of fried seafood, the mushrooms were served almost cold and undercooked...
When you ask Douglas W. Bryant what he does for a living, he hesitates for a couple of moments, smiles and stares at his feet. You sit back and wait, almost nervously, not wanting to push for an answer; his shyness or modesty or whatever you want to call it is contagious. Then he looks up from his desk in the midst of his Widener Library office and searches slowly and carefully for the answer, and his response is characteristically low-key. Bryant, who has more titles following his name than probably anyone else at Harvard, doesn't push himself...
...which come under the Widener bailiwick--has stayed the same for the past ten years. But acquisitions of collections, and hence the workload of the staff, have dramatically increased. Harvard's library system, once labelled a network so vast and expansive that one can get happily lost," boasts almost 100 branch libraries holding nearly 10 million items. Bryant has seen the construction of the libraries that some consider the finest of their kind: Yenching, Countway Medical Library, Gutman Library the Education School), Pusey, Tozzer, the Fine Arts Library and many more. Bryant views libraries in the same light as museums...
Klute. In 1971, Jane Fonda won an Oscar for this film She didn't work in Hollywood again until 1976. It's good to have you back, Jane, but Klute almost sustained us through those barren years. Somehow thrillers where the characters matter seem richer in atmosphere and tension--and Fonda's Bree Daniels, the call-girl who is the object of a shadowy killer, involves us so totally that the girl-in-the-abandoned-warehouse routine at the end doesn't even appear schematic (well, it does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan...
Written late in Shaw's career, Heartbreak House unfolds against the backdrop of World War I. It opens almost like an Agatha Christie murder mystery: a young girl, accompanied her fiance and father, comes to a strange country house, invited by a woman she doesn't know all that well. The house is bulging with a variety of guests, to who terms like "wacky" and "zany" cannot be too strongly applied. A burglar enters the premises, as does the long-lost daughter of one of the guests. Relationships among the characters are tangled--nobody is quite what he appears...