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Their own Harvard Street neighborhood is buzzing with contractors's pickups coming in and out of driveways, rotten wood getting torn off roofs and air-powered hammer-guns lining up rows of shingles...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Rent Control's Demise: A Tale of Two Families | 1/29/1997 | See Source »

...chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GRADER'S REPLY | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

...People vs. Larry Flynt, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski of Ed Wood fame, jogs from one incident to the next, amassing information and dispensing attitude but rarely creating real characters. That's supposed to be director Milos Forman's forte; here, though, nearly everyone is an enemy or a stooge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A RICH FILM FEAST | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...while leaving us yearning for much more. We learn to make a variety of wreaths, all of which, astonishingly, are different from the ones displayed in her magazine's special November wreath issue. We see the holiday doyen package her Christmas cookies--alas, no recipes--in handsomely beribboned balsa-wood containers (not like those tacky doily-lined tins they throw at us on the Food Network). Best of all, we discover that Martha herself is far from infallible. "Do you know what I did last year?" she confides to her forester, "I covered my entire tree in blue angel hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: GLAD TIDINGS SHE BRINGS | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Troll creatures and ethereal wood sprites will grace the stage at Sanders Theater in "Christmas Revels," a holiday extravaganza that will be running through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Ice Skating to 'The Nutcracker': Break Alternatives to Theses Abound | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

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