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...attitude toward grass, common lawn variety, points up the difference between the two parks. Sit down on the sod at the Public Garden, and it will be only minutes before a mounted policeman asks you to leave. Stray off the path at the Common, and no one, not even the pigeons, will notice...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Byrd's Swans | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

Sweeney Todd is one giant step for vegetarianism. Sweeney (Len Cariou), "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," slits the throats of stray clients and deposits their bodies with Mrs. Lovett (Angela Lansbury), who has them ground up and served as meat pies in her pie shoppe. This musical is a black-comedy opera with helpings of ha'penny Brecht. Its underlying theme, and épater le bourgeois tone, is that man exists only to eat or be eaten by his fellows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Razor's Edge | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...woman later identified as traveling on a British passport issued in 1975 in the name of Erika Mary Chambers. Three months ago, she rented an apartment overlooking the Rue Verdun. She appeared to be an eccentric middle-aged spinster, known to her neighbors as Penelope, who loved stray cats and sketched street scenes from her window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Death of a Terrorist | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...next 13 minutes, Harvard floated around the ice, generating little pressure and no offense. The Crimson sent stray passes which connected with vacant ice, if not Friar sticks. Providence pounded the lethargic Crimson and totally dominated play...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Providence Bumps Harvard; 5-3 Loss Crushes Playoff Bid | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

...crowd of people dispersed, and all that was left was some blood and stray pieces of gauze dressing on the sidewalk. But the snow was quickly covering up that...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Acts of God and Other Co-Conspirators | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

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