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...show is a string of contemporary vignettes, each one based on one of Aesop's fables. Some of the scenes, like "Tortoise and Hare," are rousing song and dance routines: all feature sharp, wise-cracking humor. Yet, although most of the scenes are winning in themselves, the show overall lacks direction and flow; it's missing a theme and a pattern. The numbers come in haphazard arrangement, seemingly without design, each revealing a neat moral cliche that could be more efficiently placed in a greeting card...
...Just Desserts--sporadically, that is. A brilliantly funny sketch like the one featuring Pilar Pittas as a "Valley Girl" crab will often be followed by an awkward scene that just doesn't work. Just Desserts is not a play, but rather a string of scenes of unequal strength. Like a stand of beads, this string occasionally breaks and director Koury needs to do some re-cringing before her show will be the little gem it could...
...defeat ended the Crimson's two-game string of upset victories and lowered their to 3-9 in the Ivies, good enough to tie Cornell for last place in the League...
Harvard did regain control-capturing first place finishes in the next six events and sweeping up second in all six for good measure. Included in the string were double wins by sophomore Can Watson on the one and three meter boards, an phenomenal 100 free clocking by junior Boo Tyler to edge teammate Miso in 46-83, and a one-two sweep by freshman Peter Egan and Dave Lubitiz in the 200 fly-a Chappell specialty...
Because Volcker could obviously command a big job and big money at a private financial institution, rumors inevitably crop up that he will leave Washington. One now circulating among Chase Manhattan executives has Volcker as a strong candidate to become chairman of the bank, which has suffered a string of financial reversals since Willard Butcher succeeded David Rockefeller...