Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director Ronni Marshak, using a mixed bag of students, alumni and professional actors, has provided only a competent illustration of the operetta, animating the characters and plot, but failing to provide the imagination necessary to save the unhappy Yeomen. Choreography is drab and activity limp. When the show succeeds, it is through the rarely faltering cleverness of Bill Gilbert and Art Sullivan, who have never failed to provide enticing verbal and musical strands...
...question is whether it will be opened before it gets there. The collection of essays will most likely travel directly from shopping bag to airplane seat to coffee table to Harvard memorial bookshelf and a place of esteem next to Erich Segal's Class, last year's reunion volume. Alums should do themselves a favor by giving Class another read and leaving this 350th momento to collect dust...
Noel Koch, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, recently left his Pentagon office toting an overnight bag and rode to Washington's National Airport. Koch breezed through three airport metal detectors and into the departure lounge. That was as far as he planned to go. Inside his carry-on bag, Koch had concealed a 9-mm handgun that weighs only 23 oz. and is made partly of superhardened plastic. When disassembled, the Austrian-made weapon, known as the Glock 17, does not look like a firearm. Only its barrel, slide and springs, which are metal, show up on airport scanners...
...customs stared at [an ad for magazines] I had in my Coop bag for 10 minutes thinking it was propaganda," Fastenberg said...
...after five years of preparation, the 350th anniversary celebration is suddenly without one-third of its star lineup. And Derek Bok is the man holding the embarrassingly large bag. If Reagan felt slighted, it's because Mass Hall either stepped on sensitive toes, or simply took the President's appearance for granted. While it might seem strange that the President of the United States needs to be lured here with academic kudos, the Reagans are known to take protocol and good manners very seriously...