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...stars as the slippery lawyer who tries to clear the path for executive dictatorship. Leon Jaworski is, for the first time in his life, cast in the role of the hero. I know how this one ends, but I won't tell you because I don't want to spoil the suspense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE | 7/9/1974 | See Source »

...would be a 2800-megawatt coal-burning structure with four huge smokestacks, and would probably be the most polluting plant in the country. The group that approached Harvard, the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), contended that the plant would ruin the air and water around it and spoil nearby farmers' crops unless it were equipped with additional controls to stem its sulfur dioxide emissions...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: ACSR Active But Students Care Little | 6/13/1974 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the blackened plywood does spoil the effect of disguising the building amidst its surroundings. All Hancock can do now is wait until September 1974, when all the new single-paned reflective windows are installed, to see whether the effect will still be the same...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: I.M. Pei: Is Luck the Residue of Design? | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...rest of the Yale squad tagged along behind Gallagher's no-hit hurling to spoil a fine pitching effort by newly elected captain Mike O'Malley, and eke out a 2-1 victory in the first game of a double-header. The Crimson nine stormed back with a vengeance, however, in the second encounter with an 11-hit, 8-run barrage and strong pitching from junior Jim Harrell to take the nightcap...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Nine Splits Doubleheader with Bulldogs | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

That is a considerable distance for an off-Broadway musical to travel without even having had an official opening. But Producer Phil Oesterman and Lyricist-Composer Earl Wilson Jr., the gossip columnist's 31-year-old son, reason that a few stuffy reviews could only spoil their astonishing success with Let My People Come, a mostly nude review that began performances last January. So far, almost all reviewers have respected their wishes and stayed away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Sexual Non-Show | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

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