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THIS COMPLEX LIST of suspects may suggest the makings of a contrived prime-time melodrama, but it should be noted that P.D. James is a true mystery artiste, whose writing transcends the seeming transparency of her material. Her prose is direct, with an unmistakably British flavor. It is of little wonder that her novels have translated so easily into high quality PBS television specials...
Inside Memorial Hall, the carnival atmosphere had a distinctly international flavor. The program included performances by Indian and Chinese dancers, folk music from around the world and an African storyteller...
Adding some local flavor to the proceedings, Harvard and Radcliffe will enter several crews in tomorrow's Head of the Charles...
...extra 50 cents, ice cream connoisseurs can now enjoy a new taste sensation--the ice cream flavor of their choice in what looks like a cone but is really a pretzel...
Aficionados may complain that not much is new in Nightingale. Like many people with long practice at being interviewed, Williams tended to repeat well-rehearsed witticisms. But the flavor is authentic, especially in such inverted cliches as "Symbols are just a way of saying something more directly" or "Miss Edwina (his mother) can best be described as a Prussian general -- an inefficient Prussian general." His phrase turning is ornamented $ with borrowings from other writers ("I like Dorothy Parker's line 'Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life...