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...roommate's mother brought us two kinds of toothpaste because she wasn't sure which kind we'd like, and several dozen chocolate cookies so we'd have something to brush off our teeth. My mother brought me telephone message paper "From the pen of Joyce Heard...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: Radcliffe Entertains Juniors and Parents | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

Many critics talk about Fitzgerald's need to sprinkle glitter over experience, to paint life with a little gold brush. They accuse him of shallowness and superficiality, but his version of reality is so consistent and alluring that it seems more like a grand delusion...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Dear Scott/Dear Max | 3/7/1972 | See Source »

...same in the physics class where they are learning about internal combustion engines. Art class is a little softer. Younger children: they watch their teacher draw a branch and pine needles with an ink brush, and then they bend over their desks, their small hands brushing away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Excursions in Mao's China | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

Perhaps Henry IV should be more moving but if so I don't know whom to blame. A play whose theme is madness and the illusion of really should not be as easy to brush aside as this production. When Adams House did Marat-Sade two years ago it was so emotionally convincing that even the audience seemed to be going crazy. But that was two years ago and may be the audience...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Henry IV | 3/4/1972 | See Source »

...acres in Canaveral Groves, Fla., for two years. He bought the property in 1960 but visited it for the first time in 1970. Contrary to what he had envisioned, there were no passable roads leading to some of his property. When he tried to walk through the brush to see his land, a caretaker turned him back because the area was infested with poisonous snakes. Neither the developer nor local real estate brokers will buy back the land. Rosen continues to pay taxes of $94.86 a year on his property while waiting for a better market. "Who knows?" he muses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: New American Land Rush | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

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