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...athlete. The future of Harvard drama is moot for several years, however, until the curtain rises on Robert Brustein's innovations. Despite the tempest over the undergraduate's loss of control of the Loeb Theater caused by the Brustein appointment, no one denies that there is much ado about the possibility of good, innovative theater and theater classes at Harvard...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Don't Talk of Love, Show Me | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

...program, whose co-impresario is Rubin's wife Mimi Leonard, offers to those willing to shell out $32 to $60 per ticket not merely the galaxy of stars (Dick Gregory and Buckminster Fuller too) but the promise that all participants will learn, during the 14½-hour much-ado, "everything you will ever need to know about how to be healthy and loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Much Ado About It | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Simon is determined not to let the luster of the prize change his life. On entering his first class the day after the Nobel announcement, Simon was greeted with a standing ovation from his jubilant students. He smiled, thanked them, and without further ado went into his lecture on cognitive psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Decision Doctor | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...pink fingernails fluttering near pale skin as her face crumples with joy and disbelief. The weepy, departing queen struggles to fix the crown on her successor's head. As a recorded chorus serenades, "She's a miracle, she could be Miss America. . . the one that we ado-o-o-re," the winner grips her scepter and hurtles toward the runway at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Practicing Swimsuit for Atlantic City | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...skeptical youth: "If there is no money in there, why are all these police guarding the house?" By this time, Sheehan had fled to a convent for safety. It took police a full day of persuasion, plus 19 arrests, to convince the crowd that the whole situation was much ado about nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: When Rumor Speaks | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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