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...that brought the ball all the way down to the UMass one yard line, setting up the touchdown that put Harvard ahead to stay. It felt great, Quartararo said, when asked what it was like to be on the receiving end of such a big gain. That's the longest pass play I've even run" It looked at first as if Quartararo would make it all the way, but he was caught from behind at the last moment by corner back Dwayne Lopes. "He had an angle on me," the Harvard senior said. I should've dove...
This week the first paying audiences will see whether that exhilaration is contagious. As the most expensive show mounted on Broadway, Cats needs to stay around for quite a while. But why not? Grease, Broadway's longest-running musical, ran a mere eight years. Everybody knows Cats has nine lives. -By Richard Corliss...
...search finally led them to the tradition-steeped stage of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club. Despite limited publicity and the fact that Boston theater is usually slow in the summer, Hair almost immediately became a hit, drawing audiences of all ages. Three months later, the musical has become the longest running show in the history of the Pudding. Although 17 of the 19 cast members are planning to take full course loads at Brown, the "Tribe" hopes to keep the show going through December...
...hulking, gray floating village of some 1,200 souls, the British carrier Invincible returns to Portsmouth, England, this week. It will be 166 days since it first set out for the Falkland Islands-the longest continuous tour at sea of any British warship since the days of sail-and among those eager to join family and friends will be a helicopter pilot named Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, 22, a veteran of numerous dicey adventures during the conflict. "I was airborne at the time the Atlantic Conveyor was hit," he recalls. "I saw it being struck by the missile...
Short of such negative nirvanas, Walser's characters amuse themselves by strolling about. The Walk, a record of one such expedition and the longest piece in this collection, belongs on any short list of great 20th century stories. Its narrator is an excruciatingly proper and longwinded sort who turns a day's worth of rambling into a small comic epic. He jousts with a tailor over a defective suit: "The sleeves suffer from an objectionable surfeit of length, and the waistcoat is eminently distinguished in that it creates the impression and evokes the unpleasant semblance of my being...