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...mourning for her brother, but she carries a black fan and even keeps her two sofas draped in black. In private she pops mints into her mouth from a pillbox. In her first meeting with Viola--Cesario she raises a smile by ticking off her virtues--lips, eyes, neck, chin--and then tucking her locket mirror into her bosom on the words "and so forth." She leaves no doubt that she is smitten by the young page since she whips the black drapes off her sofas when she exits. Later on, she goes much too far, when confessing her love...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Here and There A 'Twelfth Night' | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

...meals and ballooned. Now on a diet, backed by a 45-min. noon-hour jog around the Mall, he has ignored his own department's cautions about saccharin. He often drinks Tab at lunch. And he is a shade sensitive about the tendency of cartoonists to exaggerate his double chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Love This Job! | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Rarely, if ever, do Harvard students anger him, even when they do things like let a pet cobra loose in the House--as one Adams resident did a few years ago when Richardson was on duty--or break a sprinkler system pipe doing chin-ups on it, the work of another Adams House student earlier this spring...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: As Different as Night And Day | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Cuddy scratched his chin. "Well, ya know, I've always kinda regretted not doin' the veterinary...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Going to the Dogs | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Harvard's other super-frosh, second singles man Don Pompan, found the going tougher. Playing some of the best tennis seen at Palmer Dixon this year, Pompan nevertheless took one on the chin when Tiger co-captain came alive and "zoned" late in the third set, brilliantly reeling off five of the last six games...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Princeton Racquetmen Sock It to Crimson, 7-2 | 5/10/1978 | See Source »

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