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...gasoline crunch. Yet in western Massachusetts, which was covered with snow last week, the slopes are still underpopulated. Said Ted Trombley as he surveyed the empty parking lot of his Yankee Motor Lodge near Pittsfield: "Up until now we could blame the weather. But with this gorgeous weekend we just had, we're still off 50%, so we know the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOURISM: The Rush to Stay at Home | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...daughters on a vacation in Greece, he spent most of the time in his hotel room reading. He likes to prepare a new script while actually shooting another, even if the two are totally different in mood. "A film maker needs to contradict himself," he maintains. "Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me, for instance, was a reaction to the sadness of Two English Girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Sly, Loving Tribute to Film Making | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

Wheatland's problem is a common one among instrument collectors. Sundials, astrolabes, globes, telescopes, and microscopes are old favorites with antique buyers who admire the shiny brasswork, wax the basswood, and wonder what the gorgeous object was ever used for. While the stiff bidding of these amateur antiquaries has made much of Harvard's collection too valuable to risk exhibiting, their uneducated enthusiasm has depressed its worth in the marketplace of ideas. It is scarcely surprising, with more interior decorators than scientists in the field, that scientific artifacts do not attract any significant number of scrupulous scholars. --From an account...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Magazine: A September sampler | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

Cleopatra Jones chronicles the highly unbelievable exploits of a female superagent (Tamara Dobson) who is black, tough, gorgeous and invincible-not necessarily in that order. Cleopatra, who is referred to as "wonder woman," is particularly concerned with quashing dope traffic in the ghetto, and the movie manages to be effective anti-junk propaganda without getting sanctimonious about it. The archvillain is a bulbous bull-dyke, a queen of the pushers called Mommy (Shelley Winters), who turns herself out in a lot of black and henna and rains down awful retribution on recalcitrant underlings. Cleopatra and Mommy spend most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wonder Woman | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...right chin and left cheek, has great fun with the role of Sparkish, a fop (who has a counterpart in most Restoration comedies), wielding a lorgnon and indulging in an affected speech that suggests a male Edith Evans. These characters and all the others benefit from Jane Greenwood's gorgeous period costumes...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'The Country Wife' in Bright, Funny Revival | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

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