Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT WILL PROBABLY attract you the most about Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us are the surfaces of things, the lyric Mississippi atmosphere, the rural details, the moods and faces. These are only incidentals in a lot of films, but here they are pleasant enough to be the most important things, and also to remind us that the best function of art is often not that of probing "depths" but of making us understand and love shallow things, things of the surface...
...Market and begins rolling out 5,000 ravioli for sale hi the front room. Each evening, Ida Galli switches on the spotlight hi her front yard-not to scare away burglars, but to illuminate a 3-ft.-high statue of the Blessed Virgin. It is all part of the pleasant, unhurried flavor of life today on the Hill...
...After the sale of movie rights to Robert Redford for $450,000 and Playboy's $25,000 check for two excerpts, the pair expected to gross around $500,000 each from the finished book, All the President's Men, to be published this June. Then came a pleasant surprise: Warner Paperback library offered $1 million for the paperback rights-a record for a book yet to be published in hardcover. As for the sleuths' boss, Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee, he had a wry proposal for how to use their new wealth. "If you two have...
Well Rooted. What makes this more than just a pleasant trot is the obvious strong feeling that L'Amour has for the West as it really was. His great-grandfather was scalped by the Sioux (which may or may not have awakened young Louis' interest), and he was raised in North Dakota. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. Not only has L'Amour done vast library research, but he also spends many days with his family hiking over mountain trails in California and Colorado. In addition, he is involved with...
About three doors down, you can find Barney's, a pleasant place that tries to be Irish, but serves good sandwiches more successfully. Downstairs at Barney's is a good place to take people for lunch. The place offers a daily special that varies in quality, has a television, and is a good place to sit if you've been shopping or whatever. Since most Harvard students are not likely to spend a whole goddamned day shopping in Harvard Square (and would be too broke to do much of anything other than eat at Food Services if they did) most...