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Given its built-in chaos, "Perry Clews" would be a challenge to any theater company. That the Adams House Drama Society took it on is a credit to its ambitiousness, if not to its sense of proportion. Not surprisingly, the show is less than masterful...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Treasure Hunt | 4/30/1976 | See Source »

...site of casual gatherings. The river is nearby, but so is the noisy traffic on Soldiers Field Road, Western Ave. and the Mass Pike. The complex's curious siting isolates it from most of the surrounding area, so that if you wanted to buy something not at the built-in grocery store you'd have to walk to the Square, ten minutes away. People who want to leave the world behind when they leave work, to stay inside and look out the window, may like it there...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Room With a View | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

...Clark, who at 36 is the youngest party chief in Canadian history. Clark has plenty of work ahead in trying to broaden his party's base, notably in the Liberal stronghold of Quebec. But, given Trudeau's mounting troubles, the new opposition leader has a built-in opportunity to get Canada ready for a case of Clarkomania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Trudeau's Troubles | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...Pusey Library is also the world's first to be designed with a built-in, fully-automated, halon-gas fire-extinguishing system...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: At Last The Library Opens | 2/21/1976 | See Source »

...bourgeois couple of this film is played by Glenda Jackson and Michael Caine. Their performances are good, given the built-in limitations of the roles--this is not an actor's film. The plot is not the strongest point either: Jackson, bored with her perfect husband, adorable son, and luxurious suburban house, takes a little vacation at a continental spa, perhaps in search of some discreet adultery. There she encounters a young man (Helmut Berger) who claims to be a poet. Actually, he is a sort of well-tailored adventurer with a talent for playing the gigolo, and a lesser...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

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