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Margaret M. Cimino '87 is semi-conscious--able to respond to requests to lift a finger--said spokesman Kelly Anthony of Yale-affiliated St. Raphael's Hospital...

Author: By Heather M. Townsend, | Title: Freshman Injured at Yale Still in Critical Condition | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

...Semi-legal activities over the years have included a 1908 incident in which Harvard Coach Percy Haughton reputedly strangled a bulldog in the locker room. The scene later proved to have been slightly amplified from Haughton's tying a papiermache canine to his car and dragging...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Games people play | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...music underscores the play's striking visual opening. The curtain rises on a bare stage with the entire cast sitting silently in a semi-circle, representing the suffocating constrictions of the tiny village society Yerma lives in. Yerma (Claudia Silver) lies isolated from the rest of the cast in the middle of half-moon, while a brief film by Carl Sprague flickers over her head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overambition | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...followed by a mystical and erotic scene that reaches to explain the mysteries of fecundity that evade and torment Yerma. Reach it does, but not quite far enough; while the symbolism and open sexuality of the Male and Female Mask is striking and effective, the closing of the semi-circle of cast members into a circle, which now excludes the audience, isolates and distances spectators who before had been drawn into the circle of Yerma's pain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overambition | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...federal wiretap at the trial of a Brazilian cocaine smuggler. At the same time, the Houston Oilers have had two incidences of possession. So in Texas drugs have been added to the holy coordinates of football: a religious coach, sideline sex, boots, North Dallas Forty, jeans, Semi-Tough, barbecue sauce, insurance, computers, oil and (on third down) shotguns. Before the game last week at suburban and palatial Texas Stadium, former Cowboy Quarterback-turned-Broadcaster Don Meredith was missing the seedy and inner-city Cotton Bowl, where the Cowboys used to play, and generally lamenting the passing of time. "I made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bootlegs and Saddles | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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