Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three of the defendants--Anthony B. Vaglica of Waltham, Carl Dixon of Jamaica Plain, and Louis R. Matha of Cambridge--received prison sentences ranging from 15 to 30 years. Maria Magna of Cambridge was convicted as an accomplice...
...journal presents papers from a conference on adulthood, the second on problems of public policy. Unfortunately, none of these articles really comes to terms with or provides any new visions of American civilization. In fact, there is an astonishing amount of re-hash, unoriginal thinking and just plain shoddy workmanship by many of the dozen authors involved in this issue...
...Adams House production suffers from the strains of translation into theater and fails to make up for it by exploiting the visual opportunities afforded by the stage. Ultimately, the internal turmoil of two unconvincing main characters simply loses its relevance. At first it's funny, then just plain dull. Either way, it's not what Pinter intended...
Still, fans of Macondo will recognize the magic and hyperbole. For example, as the ultimate outrage the Americans confiscate the sea in partial payment of the national debt: they survey it, roll it up and ship it home to water the Arizona desert, leaving an endless lunar plain...
...housing. The two authors, the editor of The Maine Times and a physics professor at Bowdoin, have each designed and built their own house in Maine and are anxious to show others how to do it. Out to teach people that they need not take a mass-produced plain white two-story Colonial house as a home, the book contributed to the quiet movement to take responsibility for the formation of a part of people's lives away from professionals in large businesses, and to assume that responsibility themselves. But the authors are realistic--they admit that most people...