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...could probably handle Puccini with ease. Donald Hovey's Ralph Rackstraw, too, has a full, clean tenor. Now, admittedly there isn't all that much anyonecan make of the milquetoast roles of the love-struck couple; but both Weary and Hovey shuffle between dead seriousness and deadpan tongue-in-cheek...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Pinafore on an Old Tack | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...California, the key to Brown's victory was his success in convincing voters that he was, as he put it, a "born-again tax cutter." This was a self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek reference to his original opposition to Proposition 13, the tax-slashing referendum that Californians overwhelmingly approved in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nimble Crisscrossing | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Cavileer saw his first Harvard-Yale game in 1925 when the Crimson battled the Elis to a scoreless tie under captain Marion A. "Dolph" Cheek...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Statistician Bob Cavileer | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

...Boston Ballet offered its own tribute to Romanticism in the authentic perfection of slight gestures: the demurely downcast eyes, the drooping curve of the arms, a dancer's hand to her cheek like a sprig of flowers. The four soloists on opening night (Thursday) were a study in the company's uneven strength. David Brown floundered, as though classical technique were a suit of clothes three sizes too big, while Anamarie Sarazin wandered dutifully through a colorless waltz. But dainty Stephanie Moy, who has improved noticeably over the past couple of years, darted about deft as a hummingbird. And Elaine...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: The Classic and the Comic | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...BEST, this is good zesty comedy, and it should not pretend to aspire to the emotional delicacy and technical subtlety of the great classical tradition. Dressed up in bright crayon colors, the ample scenery chunky as a child's blocks, "Cinderella" paints a tongue-in-cheek fable in a collection of surfaces; as spectacle charming, but trivial...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: The Classic and the Comic | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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