Monsters and Dracula roam New York in winter cinema blitz
In a comic winter misadventure in New York, Frankenstein’s monster and Count Dracula visit simultaneously to promote new films. The monster faces criminal charges after a subway nuisance plea deal while Dracula battles double parking tickets, licensing quirks, and a string of legal pleas as he navigates the city’s police and courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count Dracula
New York
Mel Brook
Andy Warhol
Monster
American
Bronx
Monster Liberation
East Side
Consolidated Edison Power Company
Transylvania
United States
U.N
Jets for the lamps of Arabia
The United States announced a $756 million sale of jet fighters to Saudi Arabia amid debate over energy policy and Middle East tensions. The mock cabinet room dialogue suggests a motive of balancing the trade deficit by supplying arms, with Kissinger uncertain about Arab demand due to peace efforts and Israel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
United States
Saudi Arabia
Kissinger
Middle East
Ash
OMB
Ford
White House
Simon
Treasury
Gazeotte
State
Israel
Business Week
Bishnu Poudel
Brattleboro
Vermont
Bishnu
State Mutual
State Mutual Leaders
Phoenix
Arizona
Brattleboro Board of Selectmen
Valentine cards reflect shifting meanings of love in 1975
A study notes Valentine greetings move from traditional to parodic forms, with sentimental lines giving way to counterculture jokes. It questions love's persistence amid liberal language and fear of commitment, tracing literary reflections from de Rougemont to modern romance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Denver
Snoopy
Valentine
Public executions and local bids mark 1839 Bennington history
Historical note recalls Archibald Bates’s public hanging in Bennington in 1839. Local items include real estate purchases on West Main Street, a nursing home rename to Monroe Park, and the plan for a new Pownall library and a planetarium. Also: illness relief, a wedding, a mysterious car, tax rates, and quotes from Herblock on Nixon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hauptmann
State of
Vermont
Bennington Center
Archibald C. Bates
Thomas C. Marceau
West Main Street
Isadore Satler
James Playetis
George M. Hawks
Main Street
Paradise
Marion Wilcox
Arlington
William H. Deegan
Waterbury, Conn
Spurrell Nursing Home
Campbell’s Nursing Home
East Main St
Monroe Park Nursing Home
Pownall
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Dracula
Jack
Fifth Avenue
Arabia
By Melvin Maddocks
Tristam
Iseult
Samuel Richardson
Pamela
Tolstoy
Edmund Spenser
Denis de Rougemont
de Rougemont
Christian Science Publishing Society
Reta Jeanne Cummings
Yvonne Cummings
Martin B. Cummings
Thendara
N.Y
Richard David Knox
Carl Knox
East Arlington
St. Columban’s
Charles Drake
Saunders Road
Bennington
Mr. Drake
Brewer Bros. Garage
North Adams
America
Boston Latin School
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
ASCAP
Budapest
Montgomery
Ala
U.S. Senate
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
West Germany
Nixon
Herbert Block
Herblock
E. T. Wright
Connie
Buster Brown
Main St
Congress
No. Bennington
Carl Williams
Howard Nussbaum
State Mutual OF America
New Hampshire-Vermont
Union Street
Manchester
New Hampshire
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