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...rafted 3,700 miles down the Amazon River, walked the 1,750-mile length of Japan, and traveled 7,500 miles by dogsled from Greenland to Alaska, a harrowing, 18-month journey during which he was forced to kill several of his ailing sled dogs for food. Narrow escapes were plentiful. In 1978, when he became the first man to reach the North Pole by trekking alone across the frozen Arctic Ocean, a polar bear raided his camp and mauled his sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fears for an Intrepid Explorer | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...usual, the Theatricals deliver a wildly campy script crammed with puns, double-entendres and Harvard references, and a dozen or so men in ornate female clothing rush around onstage and do the bump and grind. (Since this year is an Amazon theme, we also get a bonus on chest hair.) And also as usual, Act I contains rudimentary plot development, sexual innuendo, and jokes about Harvard administrators in the audience--a spectacle immediately preceded by the opportunity to watch the HPT producers humiliate a smiling celebrity with Man of the Year honors. (Sean Connery didn't lose his cool when...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Belleboys in Love | 2/23/1984 | See Source »

Jungle Belles follows the long Theatricals tradition of farce, humorous melodrama, and painful puns. It is set in the 1480s in a jungle where Amazon "women" live under the benevolent rule of Queen Foraday. Their manless solitude is interrupted by the arrival of the Conquistadores, led by Captain Walter Wallcarpeting and the priest Missionary Position. A battle of the sexes ensues, further complicated by the romance of the Queen's daughter, Kitty Litter, and the Captain's son. Jim Panzee, not to mention the songs, dances, and infamous chorus line. The requisite happy ending is accomplished with the help...

Author: By Mary K. Warren, | Title: The Feminine Mystique | 2/4/1984 | See Source »

...tried out because my father was in one of these, playing a character called 'Humility,' and he said it was fun," says Brad Daley '86, who plays Amazon Dolly Llama, adding "so now I'm just one of the girls...

Author: By Mary K. Warren, | Title: The Feminine Mystique | 2/4/1984 | See Source »

This year's Pudding show will be "Jungle Belles," an Amazon satire of the Greek play "Lysistrata...

Author: By Katherine M. Peterson, | Title: Halloween Get-Ups on Sale at Pudding | 10/28/1983 | See Source »

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