Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pitched in with a prepublication hype apparently keyed to the Second Coming ("one of the most important books Dial will ever publish ... the major work by a major American novelist"). Such hoopla not only raises expectations that Moby-Dick would have trouble satisfying, but it also obscures the nicest thing about Bourjaily's novel. It is not the obligatory cultural headstone for this year: it is a generally jolly read...
...always what you call a nice child," says Poet Ntozake Shange. "I did everything nice. I was the nicest and the most correct. I did my homework. I was always on time. I never got into fights. People now ask me, 'Where did all this rage come from?' And I just smile and say it's been there all the time, but I was just trying to be nice...
...bands many nights and a slick, dress-up interior, the sort of place where working people go on a night out with their families minus their youngest children. In general, try the neighborhood bars in all sections of Cambridge and Charlestown, too; the less gaudy of them are the nicest places and have the best bargains in the area...
Prints are unappreciated creations. But this vast and varied collection, the Print-makers' annual effort at reaching the public, is a winner. The exhibit is an eye-opener; the unrealized possibilities of the graphic medium are wrung through an infinite series of changes in technique and theory. Maybe the nicest thing about this exhibit is the printmakers themselves, who will answer even the most uninformed questions about their art with enthusiasm...
...though. They seem to attract the most provocative and carefully designed art form in the square. I've come across posters announcing lectures on "Feminism and Anarchism," "Communism: A Dying Business," "Portugese Revolutionary Speaks!" and "Cyprus and Greece," tacked to the walls of Central Square bars. The nicest name in Central Square belongs to a bar, too: the Paradise Cafe; it reminds me of a song Maria Muldaur might sing...