Word: specs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buzz about Ishtar's delays and cost overruns. One finally cannot resist warming to a movie in which people are astonished to find out that Gaddafi is the name of a man not a country but are strangely gratified to learn that vultures, like tyro songwriters, work "on spec." And that contains, above all, a golden trashery of dreadful pop lyrics ("There's a wardrobe of love in my eyes,/ Come back and see if there's something your size...
...EVERYTHING in Britain idles before it starts, and once this film gets going, it really spec along Maggic Smith is fantastic--both in the nagging shrew she shows to Gilbert and the fawning but conniving social climber she reveals to Swaby. She also captures the essence of the British housewife, a special mis of dignified pretention and repressed horniness expressed in statements like, "My dear, this calls for sexual intercourse...
...this, in two of the first three cities on the tour, the money has been a little slow in coming. Ticket sales were sluggish in Dallas until the shows finally sold out July 3; as of the past Friday there were lots of ticket coupons at the Spec's Music stores in Miami waiting to be filled out and sent in. (The new system for buying tickets will be determined by local stadium owners. It will go into effect, at the latest, by the time tickets for the early-August New York City engagement go on sale.) Sullivan also...
Schoenhof's will move to 76 Mt. Auburn Street in the basement of the building of the Spec Club, according to a Schoenhof's spokesman...
...those professors interviewed yesterday had at least a few kind words for Kennedy, who as an undergraduate here lived in Weld Hall and Winthrop House, played football, was member of the Spec Club, and was a business editor of The Crimson...