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Two standard characters provide refreshing excitement in this comedy doldrum. A. Larry Haines plays the Jewish business partner who squirms up to Albert suggesting that he sell him his half of the business and turn to "harlots" for solace. He cringes away when Albert barks back his objections. Stockard Channing...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: Pay TV at the Colonial | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

Disaster was on the horizon, in more than one form. While the money had been evaporating, the news page had been deteriorating. The great campaign of 1931 had been waged against Memorial Church, a building whose bulk. The Crimson found aesthetically unappealing, and whose usefulness seemed abundantly unapparent. The anti...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Enters the 30s and the Depressions | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

Sir / Many cover story topics this past year have been depressing, transitory or unappealing. But with the story on American wine [Nov. 27], you struck oenological gold.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1972 | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

> Author Gary Wills (Nixon Agonistes) wrote brilliantly on the metaphysics of American politics. A man of both erudition and back-room savvy, Wills favored McGovern, but in New York magazine he skewered the Democratic candidate's "motiveless benignity": "He does what he does because it is right, and it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign That Was: Some Bright Spots | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

Sage Reminder. What sort of names? In 1967 the French Council of State set out some guidelines intended to help Frenchmen decide if they had a nom ridicule-a ridiculous, insulting or otherwise unappealing surname-that they could legally change. In the field of animals, from which a number of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Surname Game | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

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