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...Mikado's son, Nanki-Poo (Colum Amory), enters incognito because he is to be beheaded for refusing to marry the eminently unattractive Katisha (Laurie Myers). Nanki-Poo was counting on the imminent execution of his rival, Ko-Ko, thus facilitating his elopement with the delectable Yum-Yum (Amy Daley). To his chagrin, Ko-Ko is executioner rather than executed, and is about to marry Yum-Yum that very afternoon. Happily, Nanki-Poo is able to strike a deal with the Executioner. The Mikado's demand for an execution has imperiled Ko-Ko's life (he being the only person...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Turning Japanese | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

...self. That quest, and the thoughts it inspires, brings as much pain as enlightenment. In a typical passage, Heaney, who grew up in Northern Ireland, bitterly remembers the Catholic ghetto, and "how quick I was to know my place." In another, he faces the ghost of his cousin Colum, killed in the sectarian violence. "You confused evasion and artistic tact," the murdered man tells him. "The Protestant who shot me through the head/ I accuse directly, but indirectly, you . . . for the way you whitewashed ugliness and drew/ the lovely blinds of the Purgatorio/ and saccharined my death with morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inspirations Station Island | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...MICHELLE HEALY Princeton 12 Harvard 10 Yale 35 Penn 13 Cornell 14 Dart 13 Colgate 28 Columbia 21 H C 35 Brown 28 Staff Writer DUANE INGALLS GLASSCOCK WBCN Disc Jockey and Clone Princeton 42 Harvard 0 Penn 17 Yale 14 Cornell 17 Dart 14 Colgate 24 Colum 10 Brown 14 H C 13 guest

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sports Cube Predicts | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

...Scott and Ernest, "a documentary reconstruction of their friendship and estrangement," Matthew Bruccoli suggests it was Hemingway who had his nose pressed up against the glass. "I am getting to know the rich." Hemingway told Max Perkins and Critic Mary Colum at lunch. And it was Colum who replied, "The only difference between the rich and the other people is that the rich have more money." Making Fitzgerald the victim of this putdown, says Bruccoli, was one of several instances when Hemingway adjusted embarrassing truths to preserve his image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Far Side of Friendship | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

Penn at Harv Yale at Prince Brown at Dart Colum at Corn Season's Record MIKE SAVIT Harvard, 20-8 Yale, 16-7 Brown, 21-17 Columbia, 31-30 22-6 (.786) ROB SIDORSKY Harvard, 15-0 Yale, 27-17 Brown, 20-17 Columbia, 35-27 20-8 (.714) DAVE CLARKE Harvard, 20-17 Yale, 28-17 Dartmouth, 21-17 Columbia, 28-24 20-8 (.714) JOHN DONLEY Penn, 24-20 Yale, 35-14 Brown, 21-20 Cornell, 28-27 20-8 (.714) BILL SCHEFT Penn, 17-14 Yale, 28-10 Dartmouth, 28-24 Columbia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cube Predix... | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

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