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...other times, Williams' posturing makes Ciello look ludicrous, like some hyperthyroid hampster racing his exercise wheel to no apparent result. A brilliant performance in the role of Danny might have clarified some of the mysteries about his motivations; a disastrous portrayal would make the film unwatchable. Williams strolls that spacious middle ground between epiphany and catastrophe...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Pretender to the Throne | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...occasional disillusioned reporter is not the only problem that Lord confronts in her spacious headquarters atop Holyoke Center. With her assistants, she must produce a weekly newspaper (the Gazette) and coordinate media coverage of events occurring throughout the University. In the morning she might be scrambling to get headlines for a professor proud of some scientific advancement, and in the afternoon be running interference for a scholar who claims his studies cannot be interrupted by chattering journalists. And then Lord might discover that it's Thursday, and her weekly column for the Boston Herald American is due. "I'm just...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Deane Of Image and Reality | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Earl Spencer, as well as Queen Elizabeth, are among its present day patrons. At Windsor Castle there is an entire room which carries, and honors, the name--The Wedgwood Room. Josiah's words were, at last, prophetic, when he said in his Experiment Book, "I saw the field was spacious, and the soil was good, as to promise an ample recompense to any who should labour diligently in its cultivation...

Author: By Cynthia A. Bell, | Title: Lord Wedgwood the Potter | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

...using mud in a very primitive state, sometimes from the highways of that day. There was very little in terms of people experimenting with other clays and minerals until Josiah really blew the whole thing open. This is why I think that he refers to the field being so spacious, there was so much to achieve, and he knew that...

Author: By Cynthia A. Bell, | Title: Lord Wedgwood the Potter | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

...similar mishaps-25 occurred in 1979 (the latest year tabulated) with the loss of 34 lives-could become greater in the future. Today there are about 220,000 aircraft in the U.S. fleet. In the next decade, Helms estimates, 100,000 more planes will be crisscrossing the once spacious U.S. skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Safety Bubbles in the Sky | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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