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...trip takes only about a half-hour. Police cars and remnants of the crowd that saw the Pope still line the streets. At Beacon and Charles Streets, the Greyhound buses grind to a halt--and the pack is off again. In the Common garage is another press filing center--more typewriters, phones and telexes. And ladies serving food from U-Haul trailers. But there are more police checking the entry points. "Jesus Christ," says the one who looks at my lens, "there are more journalists than Catholics in Boston today...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Chasing After the Shepherd | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

...think the six members of Monty Python would find the format of a full-length movie inimical to their comic ideal. After all, they chafed under the minimal requirements of a half-hour television spot, shuffling the credits, titles, and skits in a restless assault on any prescribed structure for their product...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Monty Python's Flying Surplice | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

...about 10 a.m. a major REMVEC transmission line failed in Connecticut while one half-hour later, one of Boston Edison's generating units in Everett "tripped" itself off during a test, Harprey said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Power Outage Hits the State; 400,000 Lose Electricity; Officials Blame Hot Weather | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

...private sanitarium for unhinged politicians? Not at all. The setting is a bare hotel conference room in Lexington, Ky., and the half-hour of "guided imagery" is the climax of an afternoon's discussion about coping with stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: Defiant Mice from City Hall | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...will rave about Steve's. It is quite a trek to Somerville, but Steve's is worth the half-hour wait on line. At Steve's you can design a frozen edifice of delicious made-on-the-premises ice cream and m and m's, fruit, whipped cream, coconut and other nuts, crushed Heath Bars, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and the quintessential maraschino cherry. If you aren't drooling now, you will be after you've waited in the round-the-block lines just to get in the unpretentios little store with the salt-rock ice cream mixers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Elites Meet to Eat, Read and Rock and Roll | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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