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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Autre Chose features some of the finest French dishes in the Cambridge area; the restaurant also sports a surprise: the very reasonable prices. In addition, the atmosphere is relaxed but not noisy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Out in Style | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...world's largest stage with a two-hour floor show to rival the biggest movies in MGM history. He has created similar shows on four continents during his 30-year career as king of showgirl spectaculars. Says Arden: "I find the prettiest girls, put them in the finest feathers and then sink them on the Titanic or burn them up in the Hindenburg. Nobody can do girls and gimmicks like me." The Reno production, his most lavish ever, cost $5 million, but the result is a show that would have made MGM's former titans jubilant. Herewith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Well Hello, Reno, Hello | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...fair argument can be made that The Band ranks among the finest rock-and-roll groups ever formed. Although they have not been overly prolific, they produced several outstanding studio albums--Music From Big Pink and The Band most notably--skeptics need only look at the almost unheard-of critical acclaim that welcomed those albums and much of their later work. The Band had it all--five immensely talented musicians and a sound that blended many of the mongrel elements that form the backbone of rock, and despite some personal problems (Danko was so strung out for two years...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: The Medicine Show Packs Up | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

...spenders. But his attempts at cleansing, if not raising his profile through philanthropy-he offered his mansion to the city for use as a school, his money to the symphony-were thwarted. Still refusing to be satisfied as the prince of pornography, Thevis bought one of the finest recording studios in the South and tried his touch out on Hollywood's biggest pinball machine-the movie business. Tilt, game over; score no points for bravado. Mike Thevis got no respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Walls Do Not a. . . | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...come to the throne. He thought his elder brother would, and was horrified when he found he was going to become King. He then said to an intimate, "It's awful. I have not been trained as King at all." The friend replied, "You've had the finest upbringing a constitutional monarch can have-you've been brought up as an officer in the Royal Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Getting the Right People | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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