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...like it better the second time around. It's all the nicer because you don't expect it," Bate said on hearing of the award...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Nicer the Second Time Around | 4/22/1978 | See Source »

...wields his demeanor like a sledgehammer and leaves viewers so unsettled that it takes them a while to remember what the rest of the movie is about. Once he appears on the screen with his insipid lackeys and his hapless barber-valet, it is hard for the nicer elements of the plot to reassert themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gags And Other Buffoonery | 1/10/1978 | See Source »

...that of Hempel, who used to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. Now he pays bonuses totaling $175 a week to 25 employees-13 who did not smoke in the first place and 12 who have curbed their habits. A receptionist happily reports that everyone is breathing "much nicer air" in the plant these days. "The implications for national health would be tremendous," Hempel says, if giant corporations like General Motors or General Electric adopted his old-fashioned capitalistic approach to clearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Clearing the Air | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...Seven thousand dollars," was all Lou would say for the first half-hour. Mrs. Lou, a long-suffering woman who had spent her life finding silver linings for all her husband's clouds, went into a spiel about the nicer attributes of modern architecture and how, after all, Carlo was still at Harvard, surrounded by brilliant people living the life of the mind. Besides, she added, pointing out the charming bastion of ruggedly individualistic capitalism occupying the opposite street corner, there's a superette nearby so Carlo won't starve when he's up late studying...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A real special place | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...nicer than Betty Monroe had, (Janet...

Author: By Dianna R. Lange, | Title: 'Flash Gordon Was There In Silver Underwear' | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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