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...intelligence, feeling--those drunken arias!--comic timing, and, finally, beauty are every bit as elephantine as her frame. There is fine support from Kaye Kingston's ghoulishly tacky Lucille and Ann Kerry's fetching Judith, but the find of the evening is John Cassisi's heart-wrenching Herschel--his breath rushing to catch up with his voice, his voice fighting to keep up with his thoughts before people stop listening and go away, with the underlying sadness of a kid who knows he's fat and weird and feels compelled to be the first to point...
...trolley cars on their respective tracks, accelerating entrances and exits so that a group of seven is, suddenly, two, and the sanctity of an emotional confrontation is inevitably, often repeatedly, violated by a hovering group of invaders. Schifter's meticulously timed staging allows us few moments to catch our breath, and leaves us dizzy and dazzled by the evening...
Although yesterday's semi-final washout against the inhospitable Elis left the Crimson (now 4-5 against Ivy competition and 12-13 overall) looking a bit out of breath, Harvard surprised almost everyone by topping the Bruins on Saturday and qualifying for today's third-place playoff...
...Salvador Dali retrospective of 436 works from 1920 to the present day, which opened at Paris' Pompidou Center in December and will run until mid-April, is-one need not hold one's breath-a resounding popular success. The number of people who crowd into the show on the Beaubourg's top floor every day is between 8,000 and 12,000, a remarkable turnout for a live artist in a country whose public has never much liked modern art. Only Tut could pack them in like this. Culture votes with its feet, ratifying Dali...
...20th century--and his teaching abilities. At Carleton, Stanley has been forced to abandon daily teaching for administrative work, but from what his associates say, he's made the adjustment perfectly. "I'm glad we got him," says Jean Phillips, associate dean of students. "He's a breath of fresh air." Stanley is responsible for a great deal of Carleton's daily functioning as well as for serious, long-term academic planning. "I'm a micro-Rosovsky," he explains, a teaching/scholarly dean whose primary responsibility is with the faculty. Moving from the stacks of Yenching Library to a desk...