Word: raves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baskin Robbins on Mass Ave serves the traditional 31 different flavors. Down the street, Brigham's is as plain as Dorothy Hamill. Brigham's logo is red, white and blue, and its ice cream chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, mostly. O.K., but you won't rave about...
...will rave about Steve's. It is quite a trek to Somerville, but Steve's is worth the half-hour wait on line. At Steve's you can design a frozen edifice of delicious made-on-the-premises ice cream and m and m's, fruit, whipped cream, coconut and other nuts, crushed Heath Bars, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and the quintessential maraschino cherry. If you aren't drooling now, you will be after you've waited in the round-the-block lines just to get in the unpretentios little store with the salt-rock ice cream mixers...
...novel that inspires book critics to nothing but rave reviews is a rare bird. Birdy has already been hailed as a modern classic. The Village Voice called Birdy, published in January, the novel of the year. The New York Times used adjectives like "enchanting" and "electrifying...
DEWITT: Yes, but not as much. That was a pretty good movie. I think people came down too hard on it after Pauline Kael wrote that ridiculous rave--the one that got plastered over all the ads. Philip Kaufman has a witty visual style, but the ending was a bummer. People in San Francisco are getting a little too mellow.... mel, if you will. Everyone...
...that a good preacher is not necessarily a good actor. Gortner has great presence. With a good director and a little humility he might learn to act. The movie itself is pretensious and insulting to its audience. It promises a lot but delivers a confused mishmash, a midnight stoned rave on film...