Word: torch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Militant Mandela Passes Torch The outgoing ANC leader tells whites: no more free rides. What's next for South Africa...
...opening sequence, which captures the sensual decadence of a gay Berlin cabaret of the 1930s, is almost worth the admission price by itself. Titillating and visually gorgeous, it's heightened by an unexpected cameo: Mick Jagger, startlingly in his element as nightclub owner Greta (a.k.a. George), performs a throaty torch song in full drag whilst suspended on a platform from the ceiling, in a menacingly campy turn disturbingly reminiscent of Tim Curry as Frank N. Furter...
Fortunately, there are a few who carry on the lonely torch of Harvard's occult history. Among them is Warren M. Little '55. He recalls that in his day there was a story of a former undergraduate who, in a strange attempt to boost his self-esteem, stood in the Yard and yelled his name, which was Rhineheart. Little remembers that "in my day, students would claim to hear him yelling. Of course, as soon as they heard the yelling they would start yelling, too, so it was sort of a joke." Little's classmate, Dean Burriss Young...
...many ways, the Red Raiders are experiencing a changing of the guards. Powerful skaters such as Mike Harder, Dave Debusschere and Mike Steeves have all moved on, leaving the torch for seniors Rob Mara and Tim Loftsgard and junior Dan Wildfong...
...many "survivors," as they call themselves, report that doctors and other medical personnel routinely leer at or ridicule the inert bodies before them. Jeanette Tracy, a television producer from Dallas, suffered this when she was anesthetized for a hernia operation in 1991. Enduring pain she describes as "a blow torch in my stomach...every tissue tearing like a piece of paper," she heard the anesthesiologist say she had "the right size breasts" and was in "great shape" for a mother of two. "You can't cover yourself," she says furiously. "You're screaming as loud as you can inside your...