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Most of the documents are stored in a special basement room which can be reached only by elevator. The room is kept between 62 and 65 degrees Farenheit and a constant 50 per cent humidity to protect the documents from disintegration...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: A Room of One's Own | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...heat reduction policy is intended to save energy and the rising oil costs. Last year, rooms were supposed to be kept above 40 degrees Farenheit but a sudden temperature drop caused water to freeze in some pipes, which subsequently burst pipes in Dunster, Eliot, Quincy and Mather Houses...

Author: By Jaleh Poorooshasb, | Title: Heating Policy Over Vacation Goes Smoothly | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Where were they? in the village of Palenque in the state of Tabasco, Mexico. What time? 9 A.M. Mean temperature? 102 degrees Farenheit and going up. Doing what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...clearing in the jungle, Merilee and Sam and Girl and Alfred surrounded by oleanders and watched over by the spirit of the jade-eyed jaguar and most of the children of Palenque, who hang like exotic globed fruit in the trees above them. Mean temperature 89 degrees Farenheit. During the consummation Merilee meows and meows. Alfred and Girl hardly blink, the jaguar is not surprised, but the children find it strange and wonderful the way gringos do it, and their curiosity is satisfied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...influence of the magnificent Alfred Hitchcock is easily discernible in countless films, and impossible to avoid in those of Francois Truffaut. Soft Skin, Truffaut's best film, integrates into its exhausting spontaneity setups from North by Northwest, and Farenheit 451, Truffaut's worst film, slavishly duplicates shot sequences from all Hitchcock's late work, climaxing in a dreadful track-in/zoom-out shot recreating Hitchcock's Vertigo distortion effect. God knows we can all learn from the Master. Nonetheless, Hitchcock-imitation is not one of Truffaut's more endearing stylistic traits and, light years behind his idol in quality, Truffaut...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: The Bride Wore Black | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

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