Word: mille
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years. As a book, it is a little underfurnished. There is no commentary, no analysis, only the bare scripts ac companied by a few photos. Yet it escapes nonbook status, thanks to the peculiarly literary nature of Bob & Ray's medium. From Fred Allen's 1954 Tread mill to Oblivion to the recent multi-volume compilations of the BBC's Goon Show, reprinted radio routines have proved surprisingly readable, and for sound reason. Alone among comedy forms, they celebrate the primacy of the word...
...students, Terry Horsman and Ira Neaman, last summer operated the Mill Creek Artisan's Revival in Yarmouth, on Cape Cod, with an Amherst College student, Richard Linnell...
...paint peels off the inside walls and rickety wooden stairways lead to doors that go nowhere, curves around the apex of Harvard Square at Mass Ave and Boylston Street. It's three stories high, and the bottom story holds stores and restaurants--Elkins, Varsity Liquor, the Tasty, the Grist Mill, the Wursthaus, all in a blur. The top floors--this is a story about them--are white and austere from the outside, bits and pieces, actually, of three small tacked-toegether buildings. A big sign that says J. HENRY QUINN REAL ESTATE stretches across the space between the second...
...Quinn up there, a real estate man," he says. "And a photographer. Let's see, a beauty shop; a secreterial school, used to be, now it's a printing company. There was a tailor up there too--a fellow by the name of Raia. That was over the Grist Mill. I don't know what's there...
...Earnings for the parent company, which also owns Newsweek, six broadcasting stations and a paper mill, dropped to $5.4 million in this year's first half, from $7 million in the same period last year, while revenues rose to $ 152 million from $ 134 million last year...