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Unlike Leonid Brezhnev, who loved to wear row upon row of medals, Yuri Andropov kept his army general's uniform in the closet. But if the late Soviet leader gave every appearance of being a civilian, his ties to the military Establishment came under increasing scrutiny during his brief tenure. Andropov, it was believed, owed a debt to the military because Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov had backed him in the race to succeed Brezhnev. In what many saw as a disquieting sign of the brass hats' growing power, it was the military's Chief of Staff, Nikolai...
...only had Andropov gained influence during his years at KGB headquarters in Dzerzhinsky Square, but he appeared to be relatively untainted by the job. Some foreign observers even considered him to be a closet reformer. Word was spread around Moscow and Western capitals that he was really a secret liberal who read trashy American novels and listened to Chubby Checker albums. A rare Andropov interview published in the West German magazine Der Spiegel brought the rumor mill grinding to a halt. Andropov acknowledged that he had traditional tastes. He said that he did not play tennis but did enjoy Beethoven...
...first annual evenings of staged readings will take place in late March at the Loeb Ex. The deadline for plays is quickly approaching, so all closet playwrights had better get their scripts, or even selected scenes of yet unfinished plays, into Susan Wang, secretary of the Harvard Drama Club. Wang says she came up with the idea late last term after realizing that few chances existed for students to get enough financial backing or physical space to have their plays staged. Student actors, directors, and production-oriented thespians will also be able to get into the act. The emphasis...
...maniac for the sport," she says. "I couldn't get enough." After she was hooked, though, the problem was getting enough money. Until this season she had to scratch as much as $4,000 together each year for equipment and travel. "One night I slept in a closet. I only had $20 in my pocket," she says. Warner will probably not have a medal either. Maybe by 1988, the 21-year-old hopes...
Squeakiest Door: The homosexuality closet on Broadway, which was vividly pried open with the Tony-winning Torch Song Trilogy and the hit musical La Cage aux Folles...