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Boston's newest and most expensive landmark, the ill-fated John Hancock building in Copley Square, may soon reach the end of its ordeal...
...therefore with some dismay that I returned to Boston this fall to find that the MBTA bosses have ruined Park Street station. It wasn't that they remodeled it into one of those sterile, tiled waiting stops like one finds at Copley or Prudential. Nor did they trim it in gaudy patriotism, as they did at Government Center. And they didn't close down the fruit and flower stand. Instead, over the summer months, the MBTA has prostituted the character of the old Park Street complex by injecting one of the most pernicious elements of 20th Century Americana -- Muzak...
...wristlets, hammered from antique forks into dazzling abstract shapes. Rings, too, are subject to the New Jeweler's wit, as with the illusory double ring by Elsa Peretti: worn only on the little finger, it extends across the ring finger, appearing to encircle both. At first glance Noma Copley's engagement ring appears to hold an ordinary solitaire complete with 58 facets. On closer examination, the "stone" turns out to be pure gold...
Proceeding on that assumption, the Copley newspaper chain, in cooperation with the Pentagon, has just published a pictorial digest of major events since 1965. Titled In Brief for the P.O.W., the 24-page magazine tries to bring returning prisoners up to date on the major hard and soft news of the past seven years. On the cover the editors describe the era, rather solemnly, as "historic years. . .when man himself, not just his spirit, escaped the grip of earth to walk in space." The subjects range from moon landings to miniskirts, from the funeral of Winston Churchill to the death...
MAMA LEONE'S restaurant opened a month ago in a new building just off of Copley Square and within a blown window pane's distance from the new John Hancock building. Above the restaurant is a multi-leveled parking garage and beneath it the Mass Pike...