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It is a measure of the reformers' temporary success that the seven major film companies left in the Hollywood area do not seem inclined to move. Besides, they still believe in make-believe. Under one rehabilitation plan, rows of shops would become typical sets from western or gaslight-era...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Cleaning Up the Act in Hollywood | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

* Her estranged husband Lord Snowdon traveled to St. Paul's by car and sat a discreet eight rows behind the royal family during the service.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Jubilee Bash for the Liz They Love | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

In the same room, but in a different category, I once saw a freshman--of course--literally fall off the top row of Burr B. As I recall; he was laughing too much at some professor's witticism, and he catapulted himself down several rows, coming to rest on the...

Author: By John A. Spritz, | Title: Pranks and embarrassments | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

THE NEXT MORNING'S weather--the wind and rain in New Jersey and the occasional tornadoes further south--should have told us all we needed to know. Instead we drove through the drizzle to Teterboro, a town with ten inhabitants, an efficient (as we would discover) police force, and a...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Thumbing the Friendly Skies | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

BUT WHAT SELLARS LACKS in cynical common-sense about the hard necessities of direction, he more than makes up in style. He has given the whole play a facade of try-anything spontaneity, and daredevil and slightly mad improvisation. Sellars' poster for the play is an unpretentious and quite ineffective...

Author: By Ta-knang Chang, | Title: A Play On Words | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

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