Word: gem
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...your stationery and school supplies, try Bob Slate on Church Street although CVS will certainly do. Definitely check out Buck-A-Book on JFK St. if you're in need of inexpensive birthday cards (2 for $1) for friends and relatives. It's a hidden gem of the Square...
...Badlands (1973). Terence Malick's teenagers-in-love-turn-killers-on-the-road movie, which inspired a thousand imitators. The unheralded gem of American cinema. Raging Bull (1980). The finest sports movie ever made, with grit courtesy of Marty. Citizen Kane (1941). Orson Welles' masterwork remains the ur-text of film schools worldwide because it blew wide open the envelope of cinematic possiblity. Mean Streets (1973). The gritty realism of Scorsese's breakthrough movie began the stylish exploration of the low-rent wiseguy that he completed in "Goodfellas." The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The finest American political film ever goes deep...
...fields of gospel, blues, rock and pop as well. She is a sharp, rhythmically fierce pianist. And though she wrote a number of her hits, including the sexually brazen Dr. Feelgood, she also displayed brilliance in making other people's compositions her own, such as Curtis Mayfield's pop gem Something He Can Feel. Or listen to her 1971 gospel-charged take on the Simon and Garfunkel classic Bridge over Troubled Water. That water's a good deal more troubled when Franklin sings the song; even the bridge seems sturdier. She was the first female inductee into the Rock...
...record, there's another gem of a ballclub buried down at the fifth seed. It's the best team in New England, it's won two straight Ivy League crowns and it's primed to duplicate the shocker it pulled off in Stillwater, Okla. about this time last year...
...applaud not only his wit and humor, but his insight into that most peculiar aspect of the Harvard experience, section. It is a gem worth reprinting in future years. MICHAEL E. DRISCOLL...