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...story of a good ole boy leading his small-top troupe from one tank town to another, juggling dreams of success and threats of eviction, extortion and worse. Add a couple of good buddies, a venal politician or two-and, most important, a little love interest to salt the stew-and the result is a movie that looks to be right out of Hollywood's golden age, but which seems curiously old-fashioned today. Catch either of these movies at a drive-in, and on a clear night you can see the '30s, sparkling almost like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Carnival Knowledge | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

CORNELL at BROWN--Finally, some excitement in Providence; but Saturday night they'll be cooking Bruin stew: Cornell...

Author: By Faithful Scribe, | Title: Green Meanies | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...Tuesday, the Crimson squad faces the toughest competition of the season in a tri-meet with UMass and perennial eastern favorite Providence. The Friars traditionally boast a host of Irish national team imports, so this year McCurdy will try his "own home brew of Irish stew...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Harriers Dump Northeastern; Eichner Leads 20-35 Romp | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...Levenson's conscious choice of life as a Jew was essential to his ability to analyze any other choice. Other histories, other problems became important not because they all blended into one pseudo-historical stew, but because the people living them faced comparable, not identical, choices...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Joseph R. Levenson: A Retrospective | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...Charles Moore remarks, "Venturi has celebrated McDonald's Golden Arches, but I'd take bets he's never eaten a Big Mac." He has built no big commissions, so his intentions read best in his houses, most recently in a ski lodge at Aspen, Colo. It is a stew of historical references: "An Art Nouveau grandfather clock with arts-and-crafts overtones," says Venturi, and overlaid with suggestions of tree house, pagoda and the intimate precision of the Finnish master Alvar Aalto. Outside, it is an aggressive little building, with its oversize dormer windows, tight walls and thick compressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

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