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Four weeks later she had lost 25 pounds, her skin had sunk into sallow caves in her face. After five weeks she had strength only to fix her daily grain and tea, and she had lost muscle control so she would scatter the food in spasms that shook her as she prepared...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Lady Star Dust | 2/20/1974 | See Source »

...this show is confused. Law School fixation or not, there's no unity at all to 'the production--the tenuous Watergate connection, for example, is milked for all it's worth so that everything's thrown in. Sometimes the scatter-shot technique worked--there was a sense of absurdity and a liberal sprinkling of slapstick that occasionally legitimized the mess. Some of the music--especially when the score departed from the safe, cliched, quasi-forties style--like Laura Shapiro's mediocre "Onion," was completely out of context. The song could have been in any show, and should have been...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Law Follies | 12/13/1973 | See Source »

...were met by a massive force of truncheon-swinging riot police and clouds of tear gas. In scenes that to some observers seemed like a re-enactment of the Costa-Gavras film Z, some police kicked and bludgeoned the demonstrators, while others fired machine guns into the air to scatter the student mobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Students Rise Against Papadopoulos | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

Others urge the use of Federal subsidy programs to rehabilitate existing structures and construct scatter-site5Cambridge Mayor Barbara Ackermann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food for Thought: Grocery Prices Up | 11/2/1973 | See Source »

Others urge the use of Federal subsidy programs to rehabilitate existing structures and construct scatter-site5Cambridge Mayor Barbara Ackermann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whipple Receives Medal For Solar System Work | 11/2/1973 | See Source »

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