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Moms appears as Grace Teasdale Grimes, a resident of a Baltimore ghetto who, with the aid of her man friend Forthwith (Slappy White), helps her next-door neighbor get elected mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Black Power | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...techniques that work: seem dumb but price conscious. Again, after a while, he'll probably cut the price 10 per cent to give you "what you've got your heart set on." The most level-headed technique is to tell the salesman, "I like the Marantz 2040 but your next-door competitor is offering it for $25 less...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Choose Your Stereo Carefully | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

These are not your ordinary next-door neighbors. Williams has made them larger-than-life, like the characters in ancient Greek drama, and has tried, in his words, to portray the "fiercely charged interplay of live human beings in the thundercloud of a common crisis." Furthermore, despite the play's three acts the action is absolutely continuous, being confined to two and a half hours on the evening of Big Daddy's 65th birthday. Not only does the work satisfy Aristotle's suggestions but it also meticulously observes the three unities, of time, place and action so dear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams's 'Cat' Revised and Revived | 7/26/1974 | See Source »

...might say that China is both close to us and far from us. It's close in that it's our next-door neighbor and shares a long border with our country. At the same time, China is far away in that the Chinese have little in common with our people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Dealing with a Matsadoon | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...techniques that work: seem dumb but price conscious. Again, after a while, he'll probably cut the price 10 per cent to give you "what you've got your heart set on." The most level-headed technique is to tell the salesman, "I like the Marantz 2040 but your next-door competitor is offering it for $25 less...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Your Stereo Is Only As Good as the Speakers | 12/8/1973 | See Source »

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