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...primitive television technology, the show's stagy conventions seem quaintly claustrophobic now. Many of the guests, movie stars excepted, are ill at ease before the camera and deliver their anecdotes with artificial gaiety. The famous naively show off their prized possessions - Old World antiques and Bernard Buffet paintings. A little of this amusement goes a long way; the cumulative effect of Person to Person is depressing. It is no fun to be reminded that the spiritual father of CBS Reports and 60 Minutes was also the progenitor of Rona Barrett - Interviews, Merv Griffin and Dinah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: See It Then | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

Such tales about Beatty are legion. He rarely, if ever, is on time for any kind of appointment: Agent Sue Mengers, a friend inured to his late arrivals, says she now "plans buffet entertaining if Warren is coming to one of my parties." Wealth makes him uncomfortable. He would rather hear Mabel Mercer sing in a quiet club than boogie at Regine's; he owns a Cartier watch, but prefers to wear a Timex. An articulate man who refuses to use either Hollywood lingo or the latest L.A. hip-speak, Beatty likes to take long pauses in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Beatty Strikes Again | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...feel like making the trip to Chinatown, you can choose from among several excellent Chinese restaurants lining Mass Ave. For a varied menu, Joyce Chen in Central Square is the place; for Szechuan, try the popular Hunan (Central Square) or Yenching (opposite Widener library). The brunch buffet at the Yenching is excellent and inexpensive. With all these excellent Chinese restaurants on our minds, we forgot all about the Hong Kong; you should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Out in Style | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...college experience did not seem that different from high school--whether this is due simply to the fact that Bolster was still living with her parents, or because she was beset by Victorian college rules that rendered Radcliffe something of a glorified girls' boarding school. At the Anne Radcliffe Buffet this week, the alumnae will sing a ditty composed of the myriad rules contained in the little red book with which every freshman was expected to become familiar--a world of structure reduced to song. Speaking with various members of the Class, it appears that their attitudes toward such petty...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Depression and War Left Their Marks | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

Lecture: An Evening With Dean John P. Roche, dean of Fletcher will speak on the American Role in a World of Transition, sherry, buffet dinner, lecture and discussion, $9.00. Call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUFTS | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

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