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Harvard has been eminently reasonable about the whole project, holding a series of meetings to hear community concern about the issue, as well as offering to donate about $300,000 to go towards tress, landscaping, and a mini-park to spruce up the Broadway St. site. It is even offering to pay the city $16,000 a year for "air rights" over the public street. What we have here is not a pay-off, but legalized extortion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Can't See the Fogg For the Bridge | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

Earnest Paul Tress #334287 Sugar Land, Texas

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 1982 | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

WITH ONE FOOT in Gilbert and Sullivan and the other in Agatha Christie, Say Goodbye is up to its knees, at least, in lovingly rehashed cliches and pleasingly resurrected stock characters. The English country gentleman, the dowdy wife, and the conniving mix-tress are all well cared-for of a dark and stormy eve by the ever-faithful butler when--of all things--the phone lines are cut, candlesticks take on the sinister aspect of murder weapons, and puns about catching one's death of cold begin to chill the air. The bumbling Scotland Yard detective soon appears...

Author: By Susan R. Mollal, | Title: Whodunit | 10/27/1982 | See Source »

Madeleine Tress San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jimmy Carter's Talent Hunt | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...Nevada - but Brooks' notion of staging a scene is to plant the actors in the middle of the frame and have them talk. The dialogue is not worth such attention. Coburn is called on to describe Hackman as "the cham pion of dumb animals, women in dis tress and lost causes." Candice Bergen points out to the hotheaded Jan-Michael Vincent (the kid looking to make a reputation) that "killin' someone don't make you a man." Brooks occasionally offers some comic relief (Whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dumdum | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

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