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It's past closing time at the Fogg; its galleries, hung in the first thread of twilight, are deserted. Suddenly Seymour Slive, the museum's new director, throws himself into an exhibit just hung for a course in 18th-century French art. He stalks backwards, arms out-flung, palms raised...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Emerging From The Fogg | 5/21/1975 | See Source »

IT'S AS TRUE today as when it was written, in 1936 by an Australian novelist working in a private bank in Paris. When Bernie Cornfield ten years ago asked the question, "Do you sincerely want to be rich?" he was playing the game according to these rules; William Make...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Banks and Mountebanks | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

Dark Mood. The movie does not state this message directly. Instead, it sifts through a succession of exquisitely made thrill sequences. Early on, the mood is farcical: Waldo loosening the wheels of a rival barnstormer so that he must crash-land in a pond; Waldo disastrously trying to perfect the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: High Flying | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

"For what was going on at the time and for what I had to work with, there were no black musicians out there who wanted to play--at all. I felt terribly upset about that. But I just wanted to play music that was pleasing to the ear. That was...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: A Touch Of Taj | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

It was the high-flying, crowd-pleasing Bell line that put the final touches on the Terrier collapse. Burke sent a perfect pass across to sophomore center Bell, who fired it past a much-abused Devlin.

Author: By William E.STEDMAN Jr., | Title: Watson Rink Slaughter: Harvard Stuns B.U., 7-2 | 12/11/1974 | See Source »

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