Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sensing that rent control, recently scrapped next door in Somerville, was in trouble, and motivated by the well-financed campaigns of Sullivan and Francis Duehay '56, tenants, especially in mid-Cambridge, flocked to the polls. "David Sullivan pulled 700 brand-new votes out of the apartment buildings," School Committee member Glenn Koocher '71 said last week...
Some of the publicity material set out to puff this wretchedly inept creaking-door flick compares it to the work of Hitchcock. After the show is over, the viewer may wonder, "Which Hitchcock was that?" Instead of building toward a climax, Stranger strings together three awkward, vaguely related segments. The first concerns a baby sitter (Carol Kane) who is terrorized by phone calls from a homicidal maniac (Tony Beckley). The second, set seven years later, has the maniac loose again, menacing a woman (Colleen Dewhurst) in a bar. The third has him on the trail of the baby sitter...
...ominous noise in the kitchen turns out to be the ice maker; and yes, the ghastly face visible when a door is jerked open belongs to a cop, not the murderer. The big scream scene, in which Kane turns for help to a blanket-covered figure of her sleeping husband, is some of the funniest footage since the Marx brothers broke up, and maybe it should have been planned that...
...threshold of his 80th year, writes as passionately as ever. Talent, discipline and enjoyment keep the juices flowing; recognition helps. Knighted hi 1975, Sir Victor is generally regarded as the best literary journalist working both sides of the Atlantic. His two-volume autobiography, A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil, are quiet marvels of English prose and self-appraisal, and his stories have accrued into a body of major work...
...have allowed Pritchett to come to eminence in his own way and in his own time. He was born in Ipswich in 1900, son of a businessman who had big ideas and often bigger debts. The first volume of Pritchett's autobiography is called A Cab at the Door because the family moved a lot. He developed a taste for reading and skepticism but when he failed a scholarship exam, his formal education ended. It was a disguised blessing: "If I had passed I would have stayed at school until I was eighteen and would surely have got another...