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...lots of foreign films, but the Nickelodeon (606 Commonwealth Ave.) will show mostly American first-runs this summer. And if you're willing to trek into Boston for a movie then you probably wouldn't mind heading up to the Somerville Theater (55 Davis Sq.). One of Boston's oldest moviehouses, the Somerville has an ambiance of chic grime. But don't miss this house that looks like it could easily be revamped into a punk palace. It's got pink walls and even a real balcony. The Killing Fields and Clockwork Orange will fill the screens several times this...
...undignified. An A.B.A. Journal study found that in 1984 only 13% of the attorneys surveyed placed ads of any kind; in 1979 the figure was 7%. Ads range in tone from the discreet, almost public-service messages on a Philadelphia classical-music station by Rawle & Henderson, the nation's oldest firm, to the outrageous grabbers of Ken Hur of Madison, Wis., the acknowledged "clown prince of adtorneys." The 300-lb. Hur's most famous TV commercial features him in | bejeweled scuba gear climbing out of a lake and urging those who are "in over their heads" to seek bankruptcy counseling...
...knows even then, that he must see her again and again. As in any good romance, that turns out to be more easily wished than done. Charley, played by Jack Nicholson in one of his boldest performances, is a faithful lieutenant in one of New York's best and oldest Mafia families, the Prizzis. Irene Walker, the handsome woman in the designer suit whom he loves at first double take, is played by that estimable chameleon, Kathleen Turner, as a sort of yuppie princess. Resident of far-off Los Angeles, where she claims to be a tax consultant...
...visible one, but her hidden one: hit person for the Mob, with a sideline that includes cheating the Prizzis out of an unforgivably large sum of money. This is a very dangerous kind of moonlighting and one that will eventually place honest Charley in a conflict between his oldest loyalties and his newest one. That, in turn, places Irene in the way of an extremely nasty surprise. And the audience in the way of a very pleasant...
...study with Nadia Boulanger, the renowned pedagogue who had taught Aaron Copland and ; Virgil Thomson. "Boulanger believed that the training we got in America was simply not thorough enough," says Glass. "She was convinced that at age 27 I had to redo completely my musical education." As the oldest member of the Boulangerie, he studied counterpoint six to eight hours a day. To help make ends meet, he worked as an extra in films for a daily wage of 75 francs, or about...