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...second largest American chain in sales, as well as by Wendy's and Burger King. And to keep sales up, McDonald's has prepared still another addition to its menu, a barbecued pork sandwich, which is being tested in 65 restaurants. The firm that produced the Big Mac, the Egg McMuffin, McChicken and Chicken McNuggets has named the new pork sandwich McRib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Food Feast | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...hazy recognition and far-off voices muttering, "Aren't you...?" The sentence never ends with "John Bellucci"--it ends with names like Vershinin (from a Peter Sellars production of "The Three Sisters"), Helena Basket (the lead in the 1980 Hasty Pudding show, "A Little Knife Music"), and most recently, Mac the Knife, from last month's "Threepenny Opera...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A Hedgehogness That Beats on the Brain | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

...team played pretty well today," freshman coach Mac Singleton said after the game. "We played against a more experienced team, and I think Harvard did pretty well," he said, adding, "It was a good defensive test for us before the Yale game--we aren't going to lose to Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Gridders Lose to Holy Cross; Record Falls to 1-3 in 7-0 Game | 11/14/1981 | See Source »

Some of the brilliances are to be expected. John Bellucci as Mac the Knife, for instance, turns in a performance steaming with violence and malice, and the Weill songs, despite some weakness in the orchestra, wound and horrify as they must. But there are other, less conventional strengths, each illuminating enough of the production to carry it past awkward moments. Lars Gunnar-Wigemark, snarling and slobbering as he narrates, inspires awe and terror even when he enters unexpectedly carrying a bright pink can of Tab; and Martha Hackett as Jenny, Macheath's favorite whore, provides the evening's most gripping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAST, ARCO & 3PO: The Fall Season Hits Its Stride | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

Captain Macheath (John Bellucci), known as Mac the Knife, holds sway over the criminal elements. He marries Peachum's daughter Polly (Daphne de Marneffe), without her parents' consent. Enraged, Peachum and his wife (Miriam Shmir) plot to have him hanged. Mrs. Peachum enlists the help of Mac's whores to trap him, one of whom, Low-Dive Jenny (Martha Hackett) once lived with him. Mr. Peachum bullies Tiger Brown (Christopher Randolph), the Sheriff of London and Mac's old army buddy, to arrest Macheath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Beggar's Banquet | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

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