Word: surprisingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A bus ride away, just beyond Fresh Pond, is Mt. Auburn Cemetery. You may find it somewhat surprising that a cemetery is one of the more popular picnic areas in town. The older section, with elaborate sculpted stones boasting names like Lowell and Winthrop, is the more scenic. On the...
Typically, these whiz kids were barely in their teens, or even younger, when they started to act. Diane Lane was 13 when she shot her first film, A Little Romance, last year. Mariel Hemingway, 17, who plays Woody Allen's very young lover in Manhattan, was 13 when she began...
It has, as well, seduced families into retreating into houses with closed doors and shut windows, reducing the commonalty of neighborhood life and all but obsoleting the front-porch society whose open casual folkways were an appealing hallmark of a sweatier America. Is it really surprising that the public'...
Those pessimistic assessments by TIME's bureau chiefs were echoed in a surprising fashion last week by two prominent Democratic Senators. Washington's Scoop Jackson predicted that Carter will either "take himself out" of the 1980 campaign or that events, most likely defeats in the early primaries, will...
Benjamin Britten: Spring Symphony (Soprano Sheila Armstrong, Mezzo Janet Baker, Tenor Robert Tear, St. Clement Danes School Boys' Choir, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Andre Previn conductor, Angel). Berlin born and Hollywood bred, Previn continues to show a surprising flair for English music. Here he leads a zesty performance...