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...proving a better showcase for actors than for scripts. Not Enough Rope and Home Free are pedestrian boarders in the Ex's too full house of Tennessee Williams-type agonizing. A sensitive cast and director infuse energy into these invalids--but their talents would be better applied elsewhere...

Author: By Deborah A. Coleman, | Title: Fit to be Hanged | 2/10/1973 | See Source »

Eventually Abrahams and Stansky come to the point where their subject resigns from the police and sets up to become a writer. Roughly the final third of their book is description of this process. It seems to have been an extraordinarily pedestrian affair. He lived with his parents, went to London, and there, went to Parts for shout a year and a half. It was almost a cliché. No one that Abrshams and Stansky use as a source will say that Orwell wrote anything very good during this time, and meet of them freely admit that what he wrote...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: A Portrait of Orwell as Eric Blair | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...Vidal is also capable of delivering compact and provocative insight. On cliché analogies between the Roman Empire and the United States, for example: "I should not look to Rome for comparison but rather to the Most Serene Venetian Republic, a pedestrian state devoted to wealth, comfort, trade and keeping the peace, especially after inheriting the wreck of the Byzantine Empire, as we have inherited the wreck of the British Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unpatriotic Gore | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

They have developed a semicircular building housing the library and a museum on the 12-acre site overlooking the Charles River. A pedestrian mall of shops and cafes will be located below ground with entrances to the parking garage, the main building, and the condominium apartments located behind the main building...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: Someday, Somehow, Someway | 12/2/1972 | See Source »

...architect has planned for the influx of cars and people the center will cause by transforming the land below Brattle Square into a pedestrian mall and by widening the stretch of Memorial Drive adjacent to the center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Corp. Reveals Plans For JFK Site | 12/1/1972 | See Source »

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