Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WGBH'S Michael Ambrosino, the series was modeled on the BBC's Horizon series. It also benefits from the expertise of many leading scientists who, says Ambrosino, "are starving for the opportunity to portray science accurately." In Strange Sleep, a dramatization of the discovery of anesthesia, eminent Bostonian physicians did a remarkably credible job of acting as they portrayed their medical predecessors. Occasionally, as in The Crab Nebula, the program's accuracies are a bit too complex for laymen to follow. But for the most part the shows accomplish their purpose: to stimulate the mind...
...known have rescued me from the brink of self-destruction. Eccentrics hang drying pumpkin and apple slices from their livingroom ceilings. They know the words to "God Save the Czar." They are experts on the Hapsburgs. They wear Wallabees. And, if they happened to have been extremely rich and Bostonian in the 1890s, they built Venetian palaces...
Something in Boston's air is favorable to eccentrics, and Isabella Stewart Gardner was one of the all-time classics. She began her career in fairly tame fashion, doing all sorts of things that proper Bostonian ladies never did. She was born in New York--perhaps her worst offense. She wore diamonds in her hair. She had an affair with an incipiently bad novelist. She wore French dresses, she collected rubies. She let the painter John Singer Sargent chase her all over the gym at Groton, showed up at the Church of the Advent one Lenten Sunday to scrub...
...easygoing Irish Bostonian who is described by friends as a "fiendishly good domino player," Casey earned a M.B.A. from Harvard and started out as a railroad executive with the Southern Pacific. Later he became a vice president of the railway Express Agency. For the past eleven years, he has guided the Times Mirror into ventures ranging from cable television to the manufacture of flight-training systems. The White House considered Casey for the $65,000-a-year chairmanship of the U.S. Railway Association, a government agency that will administer the recognized Northeast railroads. But American got him for salary, bonuses...
Flying Furniture. "I want to see it before it's banned," explained one proper Bostonian. Many people say that they go simply because everyone warned them not to; others are fascinated by the special effects, like the bedroom scene with the flying furniture, or are curious to see the girl vomiting pea soup or mutilating herself with a crucifix. Still other viewers yearn to be scared. "To be strictly honest, I'm morbid," admitted one college student. "It's a cult; you have to see this movie," said another. "It's the beat...