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...Odori Festival of Japan; A dazzling repertory of traditional devil dances, temple dances, dragon dances and displays of ritual combat on tour with 40 dancers as Japan's offering to the bicentennial. May 3 - 4 at 8 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center, corner of Mass. Ave. and Boylston Street. For tickets call...
Well the preliminaries were a farce, let me tell you, in Boylston Hall in the afternoon, with a parade of pretentious and incompetent speakers except a few, and three judges all frizzy-haired and with eyeglasses looking like they've spent the last three years shackled to their carrels in B-level Widener. It all began inauspiciously, as someone was to comment so aptly in The Crimson the next day, with the first speaker, in a white suit and reading something you couldn't understand from Virginia Woolf, forgetting the part about half way through and just kind of sweating...
...some ways the final was a gas. We sat in the front row all dressed up and sweating, with parched throats but trying hard not to fart. The place, Boylston Hall again, was packed, and each of the speakers had a group of their friends rooting for them in the audience. There were three black students in the finals and a large group of black supporters, then for some of the white contestants, you could tell there was a bunch of Loebies pulling for them. I wasn't in either of these categories, but there were a lot of people...
About three miles out Bromwich caught sight of the Prudential and it was all down hill from there. The people at the end were constantly clapping, drawing each runner into its welcoming din. Bromwich finally joined the Boylston and Hereford Sts. crowd...
...while the 60 Boylston St. crowd now explains that that policy is no longer enforced, the confusion over exactly which areas are available to student groups is still very much unclear...