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...Caan, he is too trim and cool ever to make us believe that he is more interesting than any other spoiled child. To be sure, he is attempting a difficult thing -acting out the role of gratuitous self-torture -but his performance is never really as vertiginously mad as it should be. The whole film is just a fantasy about going crazy, a fantasy never for a moment in danger of becoming the genuine article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mad Fantasy | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...heavy enough to produce any actual shortage of seats. TWA will discontinue its flights to Germany, leaving Pan Am the only U.S. carrier serving that country; Pan Am in return will surrender all but one of its flights to France, Portugal, Spain and Morocco. Both carriers will trim their U.S.-to-London schedules. Pam Am will get most of TWA's transpacific routes to such places as Bangkok, Guam and Bombay, but will turn over to TWA its share of the heavily traveled route from the mainland U.S. to Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Swapping for Survival | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...full-year introductory courses--fine arts and psychology--at the same time. A young man hungering for experience and stimulation, I gradually became hypnotized by the slides of archaic paintings flashing ever so quickly on the walls of the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall. An alert mind in a trim body, I became irrevocably anesthetized by distantly-articulated words bouncing lazily up the tiered rows of Burr B. Like the summer I spent in Israel, when I ate so many cucumber-laden salads I was forced to stay away from cucumbers for many years, my first year at Harvard exposed...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Naive Student | 10/5/1974 | See Source »

...there isn't enough money, and as a result administrators are aiming for a brisk 65 degrees as the median temperature in the Houses and classrooms this winter. Last year the median was about 68, and the reason for the lowered temperatures is to cut costs in order to trim the Faculty's deficit-laden budget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Changes | 10/5/1974 | See Source »

Rather than boost tuition again--the Ed School had hiked its fees $200 for 1974-75 already--Ylvisaker has chosen to run what he called earlier this week "a trim ship...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Ed, Divinity Schools Are Seeing Red | 9/28/1974 | See Source »

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