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...International Student Center on 33 Garden Street (where, due to the closeness of the quarters, one's dominant impression is of the backs of other people's heads), "Changes" harkens to the days when all the kids in the neighborhood would put on a talent show in the nextdoor garage, charging indulgent parents 25 cents admission to view the totally expectable proceedings. (No wonder that, now grown, the same kids have no use for the notion of a nationally subsidized theater...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Changes | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Littered and dingy, the building has no locks on the front doors. Donald and Jill Mitchell, graduate students in anthropology and Miss Britton's nextdoor neighbors, said last night that the door of Miss Briton's apartment was almost impossible to lock...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: Grad Student Killed | 1/8/1969 | See Source »

...rather flat role of Happy, Robert Blackwell seems ill-at-ease at moments and rarely does his characterization catch fire. The role of Charley, the nextdoor neighbor, is carried by John Coe with a sure touch and necessary comic relief. However, he rushes through the beautiful and poignant requiem quite wastefully and thus loses some of the cathartic effect of the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Death of a Salesman | 7/10/1958 | See Source »

...Molotovs live in a three-room Kremlin apartment, once occupied by Czar's servants. Their nextdoor neighbor is Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Hammer | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

Topper's nextdoor neighbors are a houseful of leering, peering evildoers and a pair of curvaceous blondes. One blonde (Carole Landis) has returned from China to inherit the place. The other (Joan Blondell) strings along as friend and funster, gets a knife in her back before the night is out. Follows the usual Thorne Smith transmogrification in which Joan turns ghost, floats over to Topper's house, lures him, his wife (Billie Burke), her maid (Patsy Kelly) and his colored chauffeur (Eddie Anderson) back to the scene of the crime for a dose of spooks. Before Topper points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 14, 1941 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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