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...want to capture an attractive decor, reflective of the community," says Joseph P. Tagliente, owner of Cambridge's only Burger King franchise, located on Concord Ave. near the Cambridge-Belmont town line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Burger King Serves Up Burgers, Frappes a la Veritas | 12/7/1982 | See Source »

...Agassiz Theater, with its Victorian decor and its Radcliffe affiliation, is the perfect setting for Dudley House's production it conjures up the very turn-of-the century female identity that gives rise to both Mary McLane's artistic uniqueness and her despair. Donna Staephansky as the dying, 40-year-old Mary succeeds in dominating the play from her sickbed her haggard face showing the marks of unfulfilled expectation. Her raspy voiced stubborness and eccentricity keep her alive as a character and avoid the danger of letting the role wallow in bitterness and cynicism...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Seeing Double | 11/18/1982 | See Source »

...world. Located between the Champs-Elysées and the Plaza Atheéneée, the seven-story, 73-room Nova-Park has mostly Swiss owners, and is conspicuously patronized by Arabs. Le Monde calls it "a triumph of pétro-baroque." Other observers have labeled the decor "Swiss swish" and "sheik chic " What is not in dispute is the cost of staying there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hotel for the Rich | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...have access to a car, use it to get out to the International House of Pancakes on Soldier's Field Road. A lively crowd gathers by sun-up, and the baby blue decor can't be topped...

Author: By Paul M. Barre, | Title: Off-Campus Fun | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...whom are hotly pursued by collectors here and abroad. One can see why Chia, 36, has a following. It is hard either to dislike his work (it is too educated and, often, too funny for that) or be really moved by it (for the same reasons). It is ideal decor for the early '80s, revivalism tempered by well-placed clues of irony. It is chic, like a Fendi fur with metaphysical yearnings. Chia can run up a good-looking, hyperactive surface-all those squiggles out of Cy Twombly and the flecks of color applied in an ornamental parody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wild Pets, Tame Pastiche | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

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