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...Janus Film Festival is one of the main attractions of the Cambridge movie world, and it's back again for another go-round at the Harvard Sq. Theatre. Each day features a new double-bill of new-wavey classics. The series begins Wednesday with Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. The Truffaut is wonderful but confusing entertainment and the second film is Bergman at his lovliest and most comprehensible. On Thursday you can check out Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus, a visually stunning but cineamagraphically blurred document on life in the slums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 8/6/1974 | See Source »

...blaze is Ryoichi Hattori, 43, a jolly, wavey-haired fellow whom many Japanese jazz composers call sensei (teacher). Hattori teaches chiefly by object lesson: he has written more than 2,000 songs, many of them smash hits. Last week his Aoi Sammyaku (Blue Mountains) headed the Japanese radio hit parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazzy | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Hardly larger than a duck, Ross's goose is the smallest and rarest of American species. It is white, with black wing tips. Northmen call it the "galoot" or "scabby-nosed wavey" (its bill has rough bumps at the base). Its official name came from Bernard R. Ross, a Hudson's Bay Co. factor at Fort Resolution. In autumn the birds migrate south and west to spend the winter in California valleys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Scabby-Nosed Wavey | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...mark on the returned postcard was a large E. He protested to the section man, and demanded to see his book and its mistakes. "Your knowledge of the subject may have been perfect," said the instructor, "but what you wrote was three blue-books of rows of wavey lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 6/10/1938 | See Source »

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