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...staging and the technical staff had to be pretty strong last night since the program listed a slew of people paid to do such things right. The backdrops, though, were so bad as to draw attention to themselves. Nurse Dwyer's office is recognizable as an office only because there's a desk in the middle of the stage. Confusing matters is a backdrop showing a corseted, bare-buttocked nymph straddling a column surrounded by almost-recognizable office paraphernalia suspended...
Harvard stumbled into the ECAC semifinals, before losing to Clarkson, 4-2. The big banner saying "ECAC Champions" went to Cornell. Meanwhile, Harvard was besieged with a slew of "Get Well Soon" cards...
Frustrated with the power this "negligible" state has wielded in the past, critics have suggested a slew of reforms, from a national primary to a rotating system of state primaries. With each election year, the people, so convinced of the inadequacies of the Iowa system, seem ever closer to accepting these changes...
Meet an amiable whale named John Madden, who mints money with his wham- bam football commentary and a slew of TV commercials...
NINETEEN--EIGHTY seven is not the international year of the child, but moviemakers obviously aren't aware of this. This year has marked the release of a slew of films that focus on pre-teens, such as My Life as A Dog, Russkies and Big Shots. Now John Boorman, director of The Emerald Forest, gets into the act with his own tale of growing up, the semi-autobiographical film Hope and Glory...