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...back to the courtroom amidst intense public drama. "Not Guilty," the jury head should announce. But as soon as Ollie jumps up, hugs Betsy and takes his first big bite of apple pie, he should be grabbed and carted off to jail. Goodbye, Oliver. You're going to the circus...
...does not make perestroika popular. A middle-aged book translator in Moscow says that votes for Yeltsin were votes against the establishment and Gorbachev. But doesn't Gorbachev represent change? "Who gives a damn about change when you can't buy cheese and aspirin anymore? They've had their circus. Now we want bread." Izvestia reports that when miners in southern Russia lined up for hours to wait for their pay packets, they began to jeer, "And this is perestroika...
Forman and Dawson battled through a scoreless seventh, aided by circus catches by centerfielders McConaghy for the Crimson and Eddie Looney for Boston College. But after Forman set the side down in order, Eagle Coach Moe Maloney was forced to turn to his bullpen, setting the stage for McConaghy's game-breaking round-tripper, his second of the season...
...which the finger-sized hero falls in love with King Arthur's little known daughter, Huncamunca. George Bernard Shaw's The Great Catherine parodies a stuffy British man's encounter with the nymphomaniacal Russian Empress. Both dramas are one-act plays that Bader and Thompson have set against colorful circus surroundings. These performances run through next weekend in Lowell House...
...Andy Hardy series). Rooney, incidentally, was No. 1 at the box office that year. Greta Garbo laughed, as the ads triumphantly proclaimed, in Ninotchka; Ingrid Bergman made her American debut in Intermezzo; Marlene Dietrich saved her flagging career with Destry Rides Again; the Marx Brothers clowned in At the Circus; and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced through The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle. Judy Garland, who was all of 16, was in only two pictures -- The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms -- but her giant talent and irresistible personality captured the screen and permanently touched the country...