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...begonias and African lilies, and islands of pink-and-white quince. He has just returned from a rehearsal, and, as he sits down to talk about a career that spans six decades, he admits to being tired. The play, Frederick Lonsdale's Aren't We All?, was a sellout in London last year; it opens on Broadway at the end of the month, and Harrison has been practicing with an almost entirely new cast. The only one remaining from the London production, indeed, is his co-star and partner in charm, Claudette Colbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rex Harrison: I Go Back to Methuselah! | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...Evening with Champions," which featured 14 world class and Olympic skaters, entertained sellout audiences three nights in a row last November. Among the skaters participating was Toller Cranston, the former Canadian men's champion and 1976 Olympic silver medalist...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Podlach, | Title: Eliot Gives $82,000 to Charity | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

...backhand shot somehow beat Harvard goalie Grant Blair, scuttling the Crimson's comeback and shocking the sellout crowd...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Castron Sinks Icemen in OT, 4-3; Crimson Faces Clarkson for Second | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

...fear and trembling in the face of sex, unknown languages, difficulties of thought, [and] mysteries of political life." He need the book to "construct the reader," leading even the lesser read into the patterns of thought of medieval scholastics. The Name of the Rose, Eco suggests, was not a sellout of academic reserve but a combination of scholarly work with the appearance of what the public wants. The Name of the Rose promised "sex and a criminal plot where the guilty purely discovered in the end," but like most medieval university lectures, offered only "Latin, prac5ically no women, [and] lots...

Author: By Jess Brever, | Title: Eco's Sequel Effective But Condescending | 2/26/1985 | See Source »

Officials from the Cambridge Cares and Shares Committee, founded last month to raise funds and concern for the ailing African nation, say they hope for a sellout crowd when the committee brings dancers, a symphony orchestra and gospel singers to Sanders Theater on January 13 and 20. All proceeds will go directly to Grassroots International, a non-profit emergency relief agency based in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee for Ethiopia Plans Benefit Concerts at Harvard | 1/8/1985 | See Source »

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