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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should restore in these vendors their chance to earn a livelihood in a way that is bothersome only to store merchants and is a pleasant change from the commercialized stores that remain in the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bring Back The Vendors | 3/11/1975 | See Source »

...wasn't pleasant way, either for the players or for the largely inebriated Crimson fans, to end a highly-successful Eastern season, Next week brings the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament to St. Louis, Mo, and another Harvard Crack at regaining its honor against...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: B.U. Demolishes Harvard Icemen, 7-3 | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...suitably Gilbert-and-Sullivanish style by Greg Minahan, as a response to Otto da Fe's discovery of half the cast in the act of escape from his deadliest dungeon. But in the first act, especially, not even Voight Kempson's professional choreography makes the songs more than pleasant breaks in the action...

Author: By Seth Kupferherg, | Title: A Fractured Fairy Tale | 3/7/1975 | See Source »

...Hayden Gallery exhibition of drawings by Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock, Line, and Guston is a pleasant exception to the rule. These five painters have been labeled Abstract Impressionists because they broke with the traditions of Cubism and Mondrian aesthetics by eliminating concrete forms and images from their work. Pollock, for example, is best known for paintings made by squirting paint out of tubes directly onto a canvas on the floor. For him, the act of releasing paint itself constitutes a valid artistic statement...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Taming Action Painting | 3/4/1975 | See Source »

...wouldn't be a million miles away from the truth--to say that Mad About Mintz is self-descriptive, that it has been hyped to the point where its (very real) virtues are disappointing. It's still worth seeing, but of expecting two and a half hours of pleasant whimsy, not non-stop genius...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Slightly Foxed | 3/1/1975 | See Source »

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