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Superstar's choreography (by James Carmichael '01) is a mixed bag. Though it is occasionally interesting and almost always active, repetition (such as the repeated use of numerous backup dancers waving their arms rhythmically behind a solo singer) tends to weaken it. In addition to its ability to entertain, dance in musical theater should be a form of expression on par with acting and music. Carmichael frequently neglects this. In this piece, much of the dancing is generic, as if it were derived from a little-known early 1980's workout video called "Sweatin' to the Messiah...
Yale is part of a great family of second-bests--of institutions that almost tasted the fruits of glory but came up just short. Yale is the Salieri to our Mozart, the American Basketball Association to our National Basketball Association, the Betamax to our VHS. Yale is much like the now deceased Soviet Union--a place that had lots of tanks and other superficial signs of strength, but that, on the inside, was really a rotting carcass of mediocrity...
Yale senior quarterback Joe Walland remembers the 114th playing of The Game with almost perfect clarity. One of his first games as starting quarterback, it ended with hordes of screaming Crimson fans storming his Yale Bowl in celebration of its undefeated Ivy season. He also remembers The Game for a different reason. If things had gone his way, he would have been part of the celebratory side. Harvard was his first college choice, but he found a rejection letter in his Crimson admissions packet...
...Walland capped off the 1998 season by solving a fearsome Crimson defense in the fourth quarter. Shut down for almost the entire game, he awoke midway through the quarter to drive Yale 71 yards, ending with a 9-yard touchdown strike to cut Harvard's lead to 7-6 with 5:33 left to play...
...PAST DISPATCHES He's in the Army Now. Well, Almost... Sgt. Bilko Was Much More Fun Than These Guys Hey! These Sweat Suits Aren't Camouflaged...