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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involves a little more than the subway--you have to take a bus from the Orange Line to the beach. But it's worth the extra work because the each there is so much better than Revere (on the Blue Line, just before Wonderland). Paragon Park is actually an okay amusement park, but stay away from the antique roller coaster; the wooden frame that supports it tends to shake a lot when the roller coaster goes over it, and the boards underneath tend to bang around a lot, and make all sorts of other noises that aren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Survival Guide to the Square | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...Donald Ogden Stewart, a fellow practitioner. In high dudgeon, Copey broke in, and said, "No, no not that. We don't have to hear the words of a Yale man. You know perfectly well why I brought you here. Tell us about those two anarchistic bastards." So Benchley said, "Okay, I will, but this is a most unfunny matter." He then recounted the following incident: a friend of his had run into Judge Webster Thayer at the Worcester Golf Club. Thayer had presided over the Sacco-Vanzetti trial where they were found guilty. This made Thayer quite a celebrity; said...

Author: By John Herling, | Title: Memories of a Half-Century of Change | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

...Okay, you got that 15-page paper due tomorrow and can't get out tonight. Fear not, because tomorrow night you can hear Warren "Werewolves of London" Zevon, 7 p.m. at the Berklee performance Center. $7.50 big ones, kids. Hell, it's not my money...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: We Warrened You | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...himself, but not very often and always advancing the reading as a "suggestion." Most directors bark out orders, confusing their actors and exhausting their stage-managers. Some, the nice ones, may preface their demands with a "please," or end them with a "thank-you." Havergal always asks. "Is that okay?" he will say, and you get the feeling he means it. "He's very charming, and very polite. More polite than any student director," Aquino says. His speech is peppered with words like "smashing," and "marvelous," and, according to Hamlin, "his sense of humor is tremendous...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: All the World's A Stage: Giles Havergal Comes to the Loeb | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

...Okay, Anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University May Punish Obstructors | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

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