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CREDIT UNIONS would generally lend to a salesman-member at 12% annually. But if he belonged to Polaroid Corp.'s credit union, an annual refund of interest would reduce the real rate to 9.6%. Payments: about $80 a month for three years. BANKS offered strikingly varied terms on a straight installment loan. In Boston, National Shawmut Bank would lend at 14% per year for 24 months (monthly payment: $96.02). First National Bank of Boston would offer a "revolving line of credit" with an indefinite repayment period and charge interest of 18% annually on the first $500 of unpaid balance...
Born. To James Taylor, 29, and Carly Simon, 32, of pop fame: their second child and first son; in Manhattan. Name: Benjamin Simon. The birth was tape-recorded and preserved on Polaroid film...
SCIENCE CENTER--The architectural atrocity is not modeled after a spider, or a lunar module, or any manner of unidentifiable creatures from outer space. It is actually an enlarged facsimile of a Polaroid Land Camera, honoring the man who donated a fortune to build the science center. A rare breed of benefactor, Land asked that the monstrosity not bear his name, so that no one could identify him as the donor...
...Institute of Contemporary Art, located at 955 Boylston St., in a most unlikely-looking brick contraption--formerly a police station, but it's hard to imagine the building housing law-and-order, either--hosts consistently worthwhile shows. This week is no exception: Marie Cosindas: Polaroid Photographs, 1960-1976 at the ICA through...
...ranks of the Slick. Plumed cavaliers either joust each other or set up straw men, hollow men, graven images of themselves, to knock down. The magazine is covering a game of daggers sliding out of ruffled tuxedo sleeves, or a swift innuendo to the kidneys, or, at best, a Polaroid snapshot of stasis. They're all interesting, these conspiracies, but [MORE] has missed the Big One. There's no world-view here, and the rats are scuttling in the cellar and the ice cap melts. More is now less...