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...village landscape is not harmed by giant balloon-like umbilical cords streaming in the treetops and kept buoyant by ulterior fans. They are fascinating. The dormitories and other buildings given over to a "main street" of shops, a moviehouse, a beauty parlor and a disco have been redone in a profusion of violet squares, vermilion triangles and aqua stars piled chockablock on orange scaffolds beside pink-and-black-striped cardboard columns. Professor Stanley Weingart of the U.S.C. business school says, "I keep waiting for Dumbo the elephant to fly out." It does put one in mind of an amusement park...
Balley's (21 Brattle St.): The only really old fashioned ice cream parlor around, Bailey's is quaint and a pleasant surprise. Tall sundae glasses filled with such antiquated joys as "Mocha Lace." None of those newfangled candy mix-ins. This is purism at its best. Brigham's (1420 Mass. Ave.): Chain-store decor aside, Brigham's boasts generous portions, thick frappes, and low prices, though sophisticates sneer. Steve's (34 Church St.): The original, legendary Steve's (in Somerville) was reputed to be worth the lengthy trek. The fun may have gone out of Steve's now that there...
...Cranbrook: the furniture and interior design by the Saarinens, the Eameses, Bertoia, Florence Schust Knoll and others. One exhibit replicates a typical mid-century office. Designed by Florence Knoll, it combines the work of Cranbrook creators into a smart, elegant interior, as representative of our time as the Victorian parlor was of its own. Like so much else from Cranbrook, the interiors evince a belief in the joy of design without the restraints of dogma, Weltanschauung, polemics, fad or fashion. At the same time, they live up to Founder Saarinen's credo that "the first thing and the most...
...futuristic visions (Kingsley Amis' The Anti-Death League, Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence). His list is as striking for what it leaves out as for what it includes. Every reader will have his favorite omissions-after all, that is half the fun of literary parlor games like this-but just to name five: John Cheever's Bullet Park, Nigel Dennis' Cards of Identity, J.F. Powers' Morte d'Urban and almost anything by Peter De Vries and Barbara...
...including the loss of family members and the struggle of women to support their families, handled with any sense of urgency or credibility. As Goldie Hawn stands in line for her job interview, a woman wearing white gloves and looking as if she just emerged from the beauty parlor turns to Kay and says. "I really need this job, I've got a kid to feed...