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PITTSFIELD, Mass.--This one will have to go down in the record books with an asterisk. For the first time in its seven-year history, the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges Sprints which were to be held here yesterday had to be cancelled due to "unrowable" conditions...
When the nude revue Oh! Calcutta! opened in New York in 1969, it became at once an asterisk in theatrical history. Devised by Britain's man-about-the-theater Kenneth Tynan, it sought unabashedly to tap the voyeur market - or rather, that part of it unwilling to get its jollies in a topless go-go bar. Tynan's tease was dressed up with skits by Samuel Beckett, Jules Feiffer and Tennessee Williams, among others, and it was billed as an evening of "elegant erotica." Outraged clerics and unimpressed critics called it other things, but Calcutta ran three years...
...affectionately known to the computer at Star Drek, is waged between a computer wonk and the unfriendly Klingon and Romulan spaceships, which appear on the terminal screen. The thrill of firing phasers, speeding through space at warp 5, annihilating the enemy with torpedos released by pressing the asterisk on the terminal keyboard and the challenge of perfecting a technique that allows one to destroy enough alien ships before the computer blasts your own ship to pieces have brought Star Trek top popularity among the 18 game programs available in the computer room. "You should see the atmosphere when people play...
...Parsons' book. The key to the system is that almost all themes can be differentiated by the relationship of the notes to each other-whether a note repeats (R) its predecessor, or goes up (U), or down (D). The first note of the melody is represented by an asterisk. For example, the famous signature of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would be written *RRD. Mary Had a Little Lamb works out like this: *DDUUR RDRRU URD. Graduates who this June march up the aisle to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance-*DUUDD DDUUD UUUUU-may well sing *URRUD DUUDR...
...deletions, which present something of a structural problem for Knopf Editor Charles Elliott. He is puzzling over how to make a page break where there is a blank space. At one point, a footnote refers to a deleted passage. "We don't know where to put the asterisk," he says...