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...extraordinary. Last week Nunn became unique: he opened a fourth. Chess, which links a Soviet-U.S. summit, a world chess championship and a doomed international romance, has already racked up advance sales of $4 million. If it overcomes bumpy reviews -- which also beset Starlight and, to a lesser degree, Cats -- Nunn will parallel what he has achieved in London, where the same four shows have been running for years...
Schickele maintains that no form is too sacred to be parodied. Schickele--er, P.D.Q. Bach--pokes fun at operatic, symphonic and vocal as well as lesser known musical forms, such as the art of performing on dried manicotti ("Four Folksong Upsettings"). Yet he counters that he is "not into a Lenny Bruce kind of humor." He claims he is not out "merely to shock or offend." Says Schickele, "I want my concerts to be friendly and melodious affairs...
...Most plans take social security into account. Before 1986, the Harvard pension was calculated and then 80 percent of an employee's social security was deducted. Now we take a lesser cut of social security," said Joan Bruce, who is in charge of employee benefits. Bruce adds that Harvard's social security plan is viewed by other employers in the Boston area as "generous...
...part of the money to help support his impoverished family and invested much of the rest in the adventures of Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Imitating and burlesquing such heroes, he began concocting science-fiction tales that he mimeographed and sold to other students. One of Siegel's lesser creations was a story called The Reign of the Superman, which featured an evil scientist with a bald head. Superman as villain? The thought is enough to make posterity shudder. But this was not the stuff of greatness. It was only during a sleepless summer night in 1934, after Siegel...
...humbling opponents with lesser talent, Edge always displayed an appropriate mixture of humor and grace. She lent a singular air of sportsmanship to her matches...