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Also, the Elis' execution maintained Harvard's two-year winning streak that at 22 straight is currently the longest in collegiate swimming...
Sealed With a Quiche, the Pudding's most recent installment of Holyoke Street's (and possibly America's) longest ongoing tradition concerns the efforts of one French lass to solicit a British nobleman--the some-time super-hero Captain Comic--and save her father from death at the hands of the rebelling masses. That's insurgent guerrillas, in modern parlance. It should be noted, if not too carefully, that the past two pudding shows have dealt with the theme of peasants rising up against their masters. And in both the masters fight them off to triumph in the end. Looks...
...Jaruzelski regime, meanwhile, continued to move against its opponents through its harsh system of military and civil justice. In the longest prison sentence handed out for a martial law violation so far, Ewa Kubasiewicz was given ten years in jail for organizing a strike at a Gdansk merchant marine college where she was a student. A Katowice court gave jail terms of three to four years to four alleged organizers of a strike at the Wujek coal mine, where at least seven civilians were killed in clashes with police on Dec. 16. The provincial prosecutor in Gdansk said that Solidarity...
...advice the victim consults the local, and unfunny, rabbi: "Why is the sea salty?" "Because of the herrings who live in it.'' In The Bandit, Gilford plays Aleichem himself, terrified by a thief, then retelling his role, à la Falstaff, as heroic. In The High School, the longest and most didactic episode, Gilford plays a domineering and ignorant father whose son is anxious to leave the ghetto for the new century. Between these sketches, Adapter Arnold Perl has shoehorned Bontche Schweig, by I.L. Peretz, a man without Aleichem's name or talent, presumably to allow Gilford...
...saying already every two minutes. Nor is he aided by Director Milton Moss's attempts to create crowd scenes by bunching his cast in clumps. Doubtless the profit motive made the producers wheel a pushcart show to the Broadway stage. They might have recalled another Yiddish proverb: The longest road is the one that leads to the pocket. -By Stefan Kanfer