Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only place that rivals the Kong's brew collection is the Wursthaus (4JFK St.), smack on the Square. In the restaurant, you can order cheeseburger mit French fries and eggs mit bacon, and even a rare customer quickly learns that the 'Haus has about as much to do with Hamburg as the Kong has to do with Canton. Go only if a nice cold Heinie just...
...about alternative universes? The Science Fantasy Bookstore (8 John F. Kennedy St., second floor) boasts one of the largest stocks of science fiction in New England, both in paperback and hardcover. Rare editions of science fiction abound, as do obscure works by the leading lights in the genre. Wargaming supplies and computer game software are also available here, sold up front with the movie and TV fanzines...
...Plympton St, one can find four bookstores. The Star Book Shop is one, and across the street, in the former site of the late Harvard Pizza, is McIntyre and Moore Booksellers (30 Plympton St.), with used and rare books. Another place, for those who tire of prose, is the famous Grolier Book Shop (6 Plymton St.), alive since 1927. "Minimum of prose" reads the sign in the window, and they speak the truth. Tall bookcases house poetry collections, little magazines, books about poets and their works, and casettes of readings. Special orders and mail orders can be done here...
Eleven Western reporters, including members of a U.S. television crew, squeezed into a cramped Moscow apartment one day last week for a rare and risky event: a press conference by three Jewish refuseniks, would-be emigrants to Israel. Their message, as delivered by Boris Klotz, 34, a wiry mathematician: "There are thousands of Jews in the Moscow area alone who want to go to Israel. The authorities tell some of these people that they have insufficient motive, and others that East-West relations are too poor...
...jutting forward in stoic determination, looks ready to apply for enshrinement on Mount Rushmore. He sheds little light on the motives behind Sakharov's late-blooming activism, though the fault may lie more in Rintels' overly reverent script than in Robards' characterization. Glenda Jackson, making a rare U.S. TV performance, brings a few moments of passion to her role as Yelena. In one scene, she chillingly describes the courtroom cheers that greeted a death sentence handed out to some Jewish friends charged with treason. But Jackson too seems weighed down by the burden of secular sainthood...