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...Northrop Frye, wreaths racked in rows...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: A Christmas Cavil | 12/20/1974 | See Source »

Still other communities have other solutions. In New Orleans, for example, most of the terrain is marshy, and sanitary landfill is needed more than fuel. So the city will get landfill from garbage processed by a private contractor. Around Boston, nine communities will pay Wheelabrator-Frye Inc. $13 per ton to burn their garbage, which will produce steam for sale to a neighboring General Electric factory. Nashville, Term., which already burns 25% of its solid wastes to produce steam to heat and cool 23 downtown commercial buildings, now plans to double the input (and output...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good from Garbage | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...weird feeling, knowing that you can lose the guts of your act at any time," lamented rubbery-faced Impressionist David Frye last week. The guts of Frye's act, of course, were his look-alike impressions of former President Nixon, whose departure from Washington has sent Frye scurrying for tapes of Gerald Ford. He has already introduced the Ford voice into his nightclub act, but worries about the face. Muses Frye, "He looks like the guy in a science fiction movie who is the first one to see The Creature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 26, 1974 | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...Academic Committee of the Association, under the chairmanship of Richard N. Frye, Aga Kahn Professor of Iranian, is scheduled to review the Association's master plan for academic affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armenian Studies To Be the Topic Of Weekend Parlay | 10/16/1973 | See Source »

...Frye, who became famous doing impersonations of Nixon, claims he gets his biggest guffaw when he has Nixon say: "The odds are 100 to 1 that I'll be impeached, 50 to 1 that I'll resign. That is not the reason that I am today signing a prison-reform bill. There will be a two-bedroom suite for anyone who has once held the highest office." Far from alienating his audiences with Watergate gags, says Frye, "the only danger I've had is not going far enough. If I hold back, the audience is disappointed." Frye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Watergate Wit | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

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