Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Handsome and visibly upper-crust -a film producer once sought him to play the part of James Bond-Lord Lucan was thought by his friends to be the quintessence of the civilized aristocrat, a man who would raise his voice only to protest a spoiled claret or bemoan a bad shot at a grouse on the moors. After serving in the Coldstream Guards and undertaking a short, unspectacular career in business, he had retired on his $250,000 inheritance to carry on more engrossing pursuits, notably golf, skiing, the hunt and chemin de fer at Mayfair gaming clubs. His success...
...moments come when he makes a mockery of the white "attempts" at jazz. At first he cuts away from the genteel party to street scenes of lower class blacks accompanied by some appropriately blue jazz tunes. Then he wickedly splices to a serene snow scene with an unperturbed upper crust executive getting off a suburban local; next, he cuts even deeper to a white woman nonchalantly trimming the white locks of her baby poodle. All this, to a background of pristine Brubeckian pop, a cruel contrast to the rest of the film's dynamic, gutsy soundtrack...
...purpose of a writer like me," Michener explains in a separately printed booklet about Centennial, "is to create a universe." The reader is warned. "Three billion, six hundred million years ago," Michener begins, "the crust had formed, and the cooling earth lay exposed to the developing atmosphere." The next 110 pages are taken up with discourses on magma and glaciers, the planet's prehistoric upheavals. Then come the prehistoric beasts, which the author vaguely anthropomorphizes: a lovely Diplodocus wandering in the muck "toward dusk on a spring evening one hundred and thirty-six million years ago" finds herself growing...
...take to the road and make measurements across other quake-prone terrain. The scientists will bring their equipment back to each site at least once a year in an effort to accumulate such an extensive record that they will be able to tell exactly how the earth's crust is moving-and thus get a fix on future earthquakes...
...those who prefer thick crusts, the 24 Restaurant on Holyoke St., and Harvard House of Pizza on Mass Ave. near the Quadrangle Houses are probably the best bets. The 24, which also serves Greek food and grinders, is more generous with the cheese and the crust, but Harvard's pizzas are larger in diameter. Pinocchio's at 74 Winthrop St. features a thick crust, but some feel it also features too much grease...