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Schulman, the Crimson's third-seed, defeated Bonnie Barber of B. U., 6-1, 6-4, in the quarterfinals and the tournament's second-seed, Pam Wolf of Yale, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, in the semis. Schulman rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the third set against Wolf to gain the final...
...only setback came at the hands of BU's Barber, who overpowered Schulman, 6-2, 7-6 (7-5). Using a crisp serve and a strong net game. Barber spoiled Schulman's late rally...
Relying on an aggressive net game and sharp passing shots, the Crimson's top player polished off the match, 6-2, 6-3. Earlier, the sophomore had teamed with Erica Schulman to defeat Sheehan and Bonnie Barber, 6-3, 6-4 at number-one doubles...
...star treading the boards once more in an upscale TV dinner theater. Sweeney Todd is something more dangerous, and something close to thrilling. When produced in 1979, Sondheim's macabre opera was not the stuff theater-party hits are made on: a musical about a London barber who cuts his customers' throats, a stage set as bleak as Bedlam, a score full of tunes to scream on your way out of the theater. On cable this sprawling Guignol fits with surprising snugness, and Angela Lansbury still schemes and postures through the role of Sweeney's accomplice like...
Dickson seems to have found a word for just about anything. Under Fizzlers, terms whose time has not yet come, he lists Americaid, one of 22 names proposed by the Nixon Administration in 1972 as a replacement for welfare. And chirtonsor, a euphemism for barber, which won the votes of 3,000 barbers in 1924. And electrolethe, a more genteel version of electric chair. There is even a word, logodaedaly, for "the capricious coining of words...