Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after New York and Detroit) with a private mayoral residence. As for maintaining the Bradleys' lavish new quarters, apparently taxpayers needn't worry. Regular city workers will staff occasional parties without straining the municipal budget. In fact, because the mayor used to rent expensive hotel ballrooms to entertain dignitaries, the city may even save some money. All in all, the price was right. Says Bradley: "This was an offer we couldn't refuse...
...sale for $39.95; Crimson editors annually elected a Miss Radcliffe from each freshman class. Although most upper-level courses were already coeducational, Harvard and Radcliffe were two distinct schools. Women were allowed into newly-opened Lamont Library only at specific hours and in specific rooms. Men could only entertain female guests in their rooms until 8 p.m. and had to check their visitors in and out with a House guard...
...Greatest is a direct descendant of this decrepit breed. The scenes are shot and played as if there were no money for retakes, and the script refuses to entertain even a hint that its hero may at any time have acted any role less than that of a natural nobleman...
...screening of Star Wars, but there's no denying that the film ultimately wins you over. Lucas clearly does not suffer from the kind of overweening ambition in artistic vision that has proven the downfall of so many of his young contemporaries in American cinema. His mission is to entertain, and if such an end involves resorting to a few old standards of dialogue and theme, then so be it. Star Wars will neither pose nor answer any metaphysical questions that will keep the moviegoer scratching his head well after he has returned to his abode. Quite frankly...
...paunch, balding Deerfield grad named Nick who worked in the dean's office; he looked and sounded like Ed Mac-Mahon with a Boston Brahmin accent. Nick used to travel around the country and would lend his room to the preppies on weekends, who in turn used it to entertain young ladies of impeccable breeding and not-so-impeccable morals. Carlo felt very uneasy around Nick, and as Nick felt very uneasy around any outsider who knew what went on in his room over the weekend neither of them made much of an effort to communicate. Their meetings became like...