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...Dave Ellingson have collaborated on songs recorded by Sinatra (You Turned My World Around) and Streisand (Love Comes from Unexpected Places), keeping themselves comfortably off the dole while they waited for Kim's career to take off. Kenny Rogers, who like Kim and Dave is a Christy Minstrels alum, gave a boost last year when he recorded one of their tunes, Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer, as a duet with Kim. That chart pacer paved the way. Carnes had a successful follow-up single on her own, but Bette Davis Eyes could become the kind...
...Actor's Revenge tells the tale of an 18th century Kabuki actor, Yukinojo, who specializes in female roles. Yukinojo is played by two people: a tenor (Mallory Walker) who sings the role, and a dancer (Manuel Alum) who mimes the part. Walker's relentless shouting tired the ear quickly, but Alum's performance as a man impersonating a woman was riveting...
Most members of the Class of '56 recall living by the standards they found upon arriving in Cambridge. They worked hard in classes but played the roles expected of them elsewhere. "We probably knew a lot of things were unfair." says one alum." Still, it just didn't occur to us to do anything about...
...time in "building credibility" in their local community. "About the only thing you'll get out of college for succeeding in politics is that you'll be able to put in the paper, 'Went to Harvard or UMass or wherever,'" Hall says. A University of Massachusetts at Amherst alum himself, Hall spoke of his own schooling: in one lecture on state government, the professor "taught the state budget process as football with the governor as quarterback." How much relevance to the actual process that class had upon his arrival in the Massachusetts state legislature, Hall left open to discussion...
...Spring at Vassar is traditionally lively," began the apologetic letter from Vassar President Virginia B. Smith to National Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr. Lively was certainly one way to describe the campus hubbub Smith was describing. It had followed the choice of Buckley, husband and brother of Vassar alum nae, as the 116th commencement speaker...