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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their wonton soup is a good alternative to the sweet soups. $1.75 gets you a huge bowl of soup that serves about five people. (One thing to watch at Shanghai--the menu doesn't indicate how many servings you get from each item, so ask.) Mostly clear broth, the soup contains a generous number of wontons and some big leafy spinach. The wontons were a little skimpy on the meat filling, but on the whole were very tasty...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: A Short Leap Forward | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

Listening In, by contrast, has a very clear feminist outlook. The Newbury Street Theater proclaims that its new show is a "celebration of another joyful but unmarked victory for labor women." The women in question are Boston telephone operators in the year 1919, who in an effort to win recognition of their struggle with the director of the nationalized phone system, shut down the Beantown exchanges. Although the strike spread throughout New England, history has tended to give the event only a brief note in comparison to the more notorious Boston Police Strike of the same year. This original production...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: 'Listening In' on 'Children;' Week II for Chapter II | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...stay finally reading their programs. Several quotes connecting isolation and women's liberation, with the need for people to share their lives in order to "destroy the conditions of their common oppression..." The message brought by paper mache clouds and the jux-taposition of the plays starts to become clear. When asked about the set, Krieger said that it was supposed to create a slightly threatening environment. Only then does it make sense, but during the performance it has nothing more than curiosity value, distracting the audience from the play. It is too obscure a statement, something which must have...

Author: By Alice A. Brown, | Title: Politics at the Ex | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

...wasn't just depth, though: Brown often found a clear route to pucks in the corner because Harvard's defense-oriented and, for the most part, inexperienced skaters seemed unsure whether to forecheck or drop back...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women's Hockey: Burned by Brown | 2/27/1979 | See Source »

...food outlets. (Without such precautions, sun gazers risk damaging their eyes.) Some will even usher in the event at a roc-'n'-roll celebration on an old armed forces base in Rivers, Man. But the music may be dirgelike. Weathermen are predicting only a 77% chance of clear skies over Winnipeg. As for more southerly latitudes, even a clear sky will not be of much help; as one Winnipeg observer puts it, the difference between a total and partial eclipse is "like night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Matter of Night and Day | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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