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Luckily, the film rights to the book feel to a middleman as craftsmanship and intelligent as Vonnegut himself--and certainly more restrained in his celebration of innocence. I would never have expected these qualities from the man's record: director George Roy Hill has previously given us such pedestrian derivatory fairy tales as Hawaii and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Here he sticks to the book in knowledgeable, workmanlike fashion, even clearing up some narrative mess, making the whole more consistent and straightforward and thus more powerful. What he and a skilled novice screenwriter (Stephen Geller) have done...
Wasserman's most expensive Harvard Square development currently underway consists of changing a sizeable garage, at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets, into a shopping mall. The mall, tentatively to be named "the Garage," will contain specialty and craft shops and spread over half a block. A pedestrian walk will connect Boylston Street to Dunster Street. Work on the Garage has been in progress since winter, and the mall should open for occupancy this fall...
...store oriented--will move progressively away from specialty stores and coffee shops. Parking will become harder. Driving through the Square will probably become a task of stupendous proportions. Tenants will have to bear higher land values, which will ultimately translate into higher rents, and live with a new skyline. Pedestrian traffic will swell by as much as half or two thirds...
Parking will become harder. Driving will probably become a task of stupendous proportions. Pedestrian traffic will swell by as much as half or two thirds...
...environmental front, conservationists could claim a victory in the six-month transformation of Brattle Street from a noisy, polluted area of the Square into a pedestrian mall. But they suffered defeat near the river as the Metropolitan District Commission prevailed in its plans to sacrifice several trees along the Charles to the construction of a new sewer...