Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge's galleries are putting together a few things. Art-Asia, which lent some pleasant Japanese prints to Baker Library, has Tatsuko Shimoka's pottery at the gallery, 49 Palmer St. and BAAK, on Church St., opens an exhibit of the recent paintings and sculpture of Albert Alcalay (who teaches...
...debates is not Gerald Ford. It's Jimmy Carter. I can't imagine Jimmy debating Ford and people not thinking, as a result, that Carter is a pretty bright guy. A lot of people don't know if he's bright or not. They just know that he's pleasant and seems nice and honest...
...Pleasant Dreams. Bourjaily recounts these nervous preparations with the expertise of one who has been through them. Unfortunately, he also includes the whole libretto of $4000. Since he wrote it, his fondness for the piece is forgivable. But his tearjerker about a Southern construction crew does not sing on the page. Bourjaily lovingly describes the eventual performance as a smash success; yet it is impossible to imagine how a "solid, bass boom" of a voice could save the line: "I'll see you in the morning, Buster. Pleasant dreams...
...only pleasant thing to surface from Britain's drought: in a Welsh valley that had been turned into a reservoir years ago, the stone cottage where Percy Bysshe Shelley romped with his young bride Harriet Westbrook and wrote his first great poetry was exposed to view again as the waters dropped...
...might, however, Carr remained a 310-lb. flop on the social circuit. As his old friend and sometime business partner, ex-Actor Roger Smith (Ann-Margret's husband), puts it, "He was just not pleasant to look at." On Smith's advice, Carr underwent an operation that tied off 18 ft. of intestines and helped to pare his 5-ft. 7-in. frame to a relatively sylphlike...