Word: casablanca
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...hearts of film buffs, Harvard Square and Casablanca are practically synonymous. Harvard students in the '60s used to queue up for hours outside the Brattle Theater to see Dooley Wilson croon for bogie and Ingrid Bergman. Watching movies has always been a favorite activity of college students and Harvard Square and the surrounding area offers ample selection. The high concentration of theaters makes for a lot of selection, and has brought an unexpected side effect. Most of the Square's theaters used to be aggressively low rent, the kind the management keep almost completely dark between shows...
...Brattle Theatre(40 Brattle St.) doesn't show Casablanca much anymore. The Brattle now shows good foreign films and what can only be described as well-known obscure films. Bergman, Fellini, and Polanski works are standard fare. Although it tries to showcase "artistic" actors and directors, the Brattle is rarely an innovator and tends to show only what has worked in the past or in similar communities elsewhere...
King of the heap is the Harvard Square Theatre (3 Church St.), which does show Casablanca a lot. A couple of years ago it consolidated its one large roach-model of a theater into three smaller units. The one upstairs continues the daily double-feature tradition begun by its predecessor. Each day there is a different double feature--usually put together reasonably well. A few years ago, the groupings were more inventive, but now they seem to have found what pays and have decided to stick with it, serving up a steady diet of Woody Allen, Bogart, and James Bond...
...part of their academic training the Fellows visited Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech in Morocco, taking some time for sightseeing, but mainly studying agricultural projects, a housing development site and textile plants. The week also included seminars with government officials from the Ministry of Tourism and an economic planning institute, as well as welcoming functions at the Moroccan and United States embassies...
After a delayed arrival into Casablanca, the group was whisked onto a Flag Tour bus. With only a few hours to recover from jetlag, the group was bussed to Rabat...