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Everyone is aware of the shaky state of the show. "I'm in a brillian frame of mind," says extra Susan L. Kelly '87. "I think we're in the best position," she says to fellow extra Monica O. Sams '88, "because we just have to be amusing...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Opening Night Anxiety Reaches Wuthering Heights | 4/5/1986 | See Source »

Author Aden's title is a calculated come-on. The Duchess never finishes the well-known sentence and Author Arlen's advertised salacious spread, of course, proves a Barmecide's feast. His brillian-tined tale tells of a young, beautiful, rich but extremely respectable Duchess, a widow who is a model of propriety to less proper peers and inferiors, and of the ghostly suspicion that falls on her when London becomes the scene of a series of lustful murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amusing Armenian | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

Good defensive work and only mediocre offensive strength were the characteristics of Princeton's eleven in its play against Colgate, according to a special dispatch from Princeton. Slagle's brillian individual performance, and the failure of the strong Tiger air game are other features of the Princeton-Colgate game, mentioned in the dispatch which is printed below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLGATE FRAY REVEALS FLAW IN TIGER OFFENSE | 10/27/1925 | See Source »

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