Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clockwork Orange" and "1984" have returned to the Square, along with countless other classic and cult flicks which were squeezed from their regular home at the Harvard Square Theatre this fall...
...Pigs invasion in 1961, in which a force of 2000 Cuban exiles, trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, landed on the island and were swiftly defeated and captured, was described by Neustadt and May as "the classic case of presumptions unexamined...
With such novels as Wise Virgin (1983) and Scandal, or Priscilla's Kindness (1984), English Author A.N. Wilson has won increasing renown as a satirist in the classic mode, a chronicler of lofty ideals and comic, mortal diminutions. His name has been mentioned in the same breath with that of Evelyn Waugh; comparisons to Barbara Pym have not been lacking. Readers aware of Wilson's reputation will naturally turn to Gentlemen in England expecting some laughs and intelligent fun. They will not be disappointed, but they may be surprised by the range of humors that arise in the course...
Born Yesterday, produced by Dave Edmunds with canny affection, contains some spectacular versions of material as various as Bob Dylan's classic Abandoned Love and the mid-'70s oldie Arms of Mary, a sexual reminiscence that the brothers convert into a reverie of distant innocence and immediate longing. The album's standout is the title track, written by Don, a song of romantic loss and spiritual devastation that has at least a decade's worth of pain packed tight beneath its terse lyrics. Don, who uses the Random House Dictionary and a thesaurus when he writes, expresses grateful surprise when...
Powered by a small gasoline engine that gets as much as 24 m.p.g., the Sun Classic is geared to travel at 13 m.p.h. but can be souped up to hit 30. Jim Hakeman, 66, of Sun City West, uses his new Sun Classic for shopping expeditions and visits to friends' condominiums. Says he: "It's a beautiful machine. It's the first golf cart that doesn't look like one." It is fast becoming an object of envy. Says Larry Koch, 52, who lives near the Round Hill Country Club in Alamo, Calif.: "The Sun Classic is very stylish...