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...much stronger set of characterizations, resulting in a fairly good script and stage presentation. Complex centers around Cap'm, Andy Birsh, who is also the play's director. Birsh is a lunatic with an endless supply of cash, using apartment D-21 as the setting for his heroic delusions. Like Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, Birsh imagines himself as constantly in peril; his rantings range from being a beseiged military commander to a revolutionary writer captured by a dictator...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Pop Tarts and Pathos | 10/15/1977 | See Source »

Evangeline Morphos, Senior Advisor of the North Yard, is seriously waking up at five o'clock every morning, quaffing eight raw eggs, and following a Stallone-like regimen of conditioning that ends in an heroic sprint up Widener's steps...

Author: By Ralph V. Shohet, | Title: Freshman Marathon | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

...British did not drink quite enough. The Harvard squad jumped out to an astonishing 6-3 lead after three chukkers. In the latter half of the contest, Oxford came on strong to take a one-goal lead in the waning minutes, aided by Crisp's outstanding performance. Harvard heroic efforts in the last minute to notch a final tally gave the match an appropriate conclusion and climaxed an excellent Harvard showing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Notches Oxford on Polo Field | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

Lucy feels some aversion to Hacker, but she does warm to her new neighbor, Count Dracula. The caped leech has been visiting more regularly than anyone realizes--and not to borrow cups of sugar, either. It is only a matter of time before the heroic trinity of Seward, Hacker and Van Helsing realize what evil, half-human force they must fight in their quest to save Lucy. Two and a half acts later, they will nail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Necking | 10/1/1977 | See Source »

...memory." A case in point. However, Chagall's is a nostalgia that, while occasionally self-conscious (as in the slightly-too-charming. "L'Homme Au Parapluie," a line sketch of a clown leaning on an umbrella), is seldom oppressive. It is a nostalgia of both the whimsical and the heroic variety. Don-Quixote-with-a-palette battling that deadly variety of "Art for Art's sake" that produces wall-sized canvases of black on black that cost a hefty amount of green bills on green...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Carnival Beside the Arctic Ocean | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

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