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...Wilkinson didn't spend a year with Bunting, and this may be his greatest problem. He made several trips to Scotland Neck, N.C., but the minutely detailed reporting of Midnight is missing in Moonshine. Wilkinson became a part of Wellfleet, and described it with authority. The backwoods of Carolina aren't such comfortable turf for him; no number of summers on the Cape could have prepared him for the people and the culture he found there...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Melts in the Hand, Not in the Mouth | 10/31/1985 | See Source »

...number of other successful projects followed for Stirling: the Cambridge University History Faculty Building (1964-67), the Residential Expansion of St. Andrew's University in Scotland (1964-68), and Queen's College, Oxford's Florey Building...

Author: By Matthew Snyder, | Title: Glittering Past Leads to Harvard Present | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

GREGORY'S GIRL (Harvard Square, Sunday) may have been Scotland's answer to the TSF, but its unrelentingly upbeat tone draws more on the pre-libido period in American cinema than from the id-crazed rantings of the genre's second R-rated period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scenes of Teens | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

Fingerprint identification of criminals has been routine since the turn of the century, when Scotland Yard pioneered its systematic use. Computers were brought into the process in 1976, when the FBI began converting some 17 million prints to digital form. Today, every armchair detective knows better than to pick up a gun by its handle, lest he obliterate fingerprints that could identify the killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Taking a Byte Out of Crime | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...time, Dolby also has been producing a much-touted band from Scotland with the world's wimpiest name, Prefab Sprout. Contrary to popular belief, this group, headed by the brothers McAloon, did not pick up their moniker from a vegetarian dish at a SoHo restaurant--but they might as well have. Soft-pop is a term too readily used by critics: lately, it serves to describe everyone from Huey Lewis to X. Instead, let's call this musical melange soft-porn: it is that foul...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

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