Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rear Window's funkiness is clearly evident in its average weekly fare. Films as diverse as "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Girl Can't Help It," "Gervaise" and "Repulsion," alternate with live music and experimental performance. The Rear Window also runs several series in conjunction with other organizations. Besides Kleiler's own. trademark "Festival of the Bizarre and Insane," the Rear Window has recently programmed the "Images of Boston" series (in conjunction with the Boston Center for Adult Education) and "Sets in the Cinema: The Movies and Modern Architecture" (with the Boston Architectural Center). In his diverse approach...
...brakes. Adam's head hit the headrest. Dave was unhappy with our attitude towards his quest. The quest, the quest, what was the quest? College degeneracy with a time warp twist, boy meets blind date, meets his past, meets his maker. No, not his maker, but a girl. A mystery girl, a girl who had for Dave the body, mind, and allure of a fourth grade flame, but the voice of a Smith coed. No, not coed, couldn't be a coed in an all girl's school...
That was it--an all girl's school, an educational, institutional chastity belt who's key was a phone call from fourth grade. A call from the past, a call from a girl, and Dave was on his way. Naturally, we were with...
Myself, I believe in it. I've been searching for a girl named Cappi Copeland since I moved from Dallas at the age of ten, and I was secretly sure that Cappi would be waiting there in Smith along with Dave's ex-Iowan classmate. In fact I was sure that Dave's date was Cappi. Sure, maybe she changed her name and forgot that she'd ever known me, but under my magic gaze the mists would part, Dave would step aside, and Cappi would step into my arms, lithe and beautiful. Nevertheless, I couldn't take chances, couldn...
...then the country was in the midst of the cultural thaw of Khrushchev's destalinization, a time of extraordinary ferment in the arts. Rybakov wrote an anti-Stalinist novel, Summer in Sosnyak, about a girl whose parents were killed in the 1937 purges. It was relatively mild politically and appeared in Novy Mir but was later suppressed until the publication of Rybakov's collected works in 1982. In 1964 he started Children of the Arbat, but by that time the thaw was over and the long twilight of the Brezhnev era was setting in. "Tvardovsky, the courageous Novy Mir editor...